Research team has 'wright stuff' in technology race

The ultimate goal of the WrightEagle, the robot research team of the University of Science and Technology of China, is as always not merely to win the championship in the world's top robot competition, but also to initiate a more ambitious journey toward the industrialization of intelligent service robots.

"Before we start the industrialization, we should first win a world championship, in order to check whether our technology is the best and to know how we can make it better," said Chen Xiaoping, a computer science professor at USTC and team leader of the WrightEagle.

The team made it. With its self-designed robots - dubbed Kejia - the WrightEagle recently won the first place for the first time in the RoboCup@Home league, one of several leagues at the 2014 RoboCup, officially known as the Robot World Cup Initiative, which concluded on July 25 in Joao Pessoa, Brazil.