Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge’s Post

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The entire ecosystem and infrastructure required for running this competition, conceiving it, designing it and operating it was a monumental undertaking. Visiting the site has been a challenge. We had on the coast of Abu Dhabi, the entire site builder from scratch. This is part of us mounting grand challenges to solve big problems because we're interested in accelerating. The rate of development to make solutions to big problems happen sooner. So we had to think through the journey from the eyes of the competitors to figure out what would they need. It involved building a village in an area with no infrastructure. So that involved putting in command centers so that we could monitor that the teams were operating according to the the rules. Keith, please give me a clear Cam six vision so that we are able to monitor every activity. From marine OPS to land OPS to air OPS to the test villas, teams were lucky to have their own village, the specific areas where they could secretly work on the technology. They could prepare their own personal workshop and amazing demo area. We have VIP village, 5 scrutineering tents, the start gates when the rounds were conducted, two other test gates. The USB testing facilities are an amazing environment where they could test for a month before the final demonstration. In this case it was important to give them. Time to adjust to the reality and to test different conditions. I was very impressed by the phone. I first came here. I've been around for a while and this for me is one of the best facilities that I've seen. We have never been used this kind of taste facilities in Beijing. I expected the large scale competition, but this is more than I expected actually. We wanted to make sure we had the right investment to give them all the chances to perform properly the setup and the facilities, I think. This top notch, the scale there, the the scale of all of their operation. We have a lot of space to work and there is a conditioning. There's so many vessels we can use to test our joints and our guest space. We also had Spin Natalia working with us to provide all the support required for the teams to be able to ensure that the US visa operating well during the course of the competition. So many facility and so many people are working on it, people that are assisting us day-to-day and we are very happy with the conditions that we have. It's great and without it probably we won't be able to test efficiently. The entire Aspire team has done an amazing work. Also the partners around the event, I was impressed by how much passion and love they put in everything they have done and that has been seen also by the teams during the entire competition. Thank you everyone.