BITSians develop India's first fully indegenous humanoid!

India's only entry in Robogames'08: World's largest Robo competition!

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About ACYUT

ACYUT is India's first humanoid Robot conceptualized, fabricated, assembled and programmed by five students from BITS, Pilani. ACYUT has been created on Pilani soil in its very own workshop and labs and is the only entry from India into RoboGames 2008. Check out http://acyut.wordpress.com/ to know more about how ACYUT was

born and how it is gearing up for the biggest contest in robotics. Catch a glimpse of ACYUT at http://www.youtube.com/v/QjAIaNiB1KI&hl=en

About RoboGames

Robogames is the world's largest open robot competition (even the Guinness Book of World Records says so!), being held at Fort Mason, San Francisco, from June 13, 2008 to June 15, 2008. The 2007 event had 249 teams participating from 28 different countries, in 70 different competitive events. There is only one Indian team participating in the 2008 event. www.robogames.net

Kudos to Samay Kohli, Arpit Mohan, Harsh Sinha, Prayag Mukherjee and Sushma Vallabhaneni for keeping the BITS flag flying high!! :D

Here is another video of Acyut:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhxYAeBOROs