DJI Offering Robotics Engineers Opportunity to Win $75K

DJI, the Chinese drone company and organizer of RoboMaster, has opened registration for its annual robotics competition RoboMaster 2018. The winning team will take home a trophy and a grand prize worth $75,000.

In a release DJI describes RoboMaster as “an annual contest for teams of aspiring engineers to design and build next-generation robots to compete for supremacy on the RoboMaster battlefield. The competition has gained popularity among the engineering community, and the finale in front of a live crowd of more than 10,000 people has become an exciting and entertaining spectacle for the general public. The RoboMaster 2017 final competition generated more than 814,000 online views on Twitch.tv.”

RoboMaster teams consist of full-time college and university students and their instructors. Non-students are allowed to join student teams as advisors. To encourage international participants and interested teams from overseas, RoboMaster will provide technical and financial support of up to $1,500 for teams that successfully make it past the proposal stage and into the second round. For details, visit https://www.robomaster.com/en-US/resource/pages/714?type=announcementSub.

“DJI is not only passionate about making great drone technology. We also want to encourage and empower young engineers to showcase their talent to the rest of the world and demonstrate the amazing things that robotics can achieve,” said Paul Xu, DJI’s Vice President. “RoboMaster has become increasingly popular among the engineering community not just in China but also in other parts of the world. We want to make the 2018 competition truly global and invite engineering talent from around the globe to come together, learn from each other and put their skills to the test.”

In 2017, more than 7,000 participants from 200 universities including China participated. You can view highlights of RoboMaster 2017 here.

You can sign up for RoboMaster 2018 here or write robomaster@dji.com for more information.

The competition is yet another example of how DJI is taking a page from technology playbooks of the past to leverage their leadership position and advance the industry.