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BUTECH's Mine Detection Robot Project "Cesur" Reaches the Final of NI Arabia's Competition
The Bahçeşehir University Technology Development Center (BUTECH) became a finalist by reaching the top five in the Mine and Ordnance Detection Robot Design Contest (NI Mine Detection Design Contest) organized by NI Arabia.
The project named Cesur by the Bahçeşehir University Technology Development Center reached the final of the "NI Mine Detection Design Contest" launched by NI Arabia, the Lebanon representative of National Instruments (NI), a technology giant supplying software and hardware to more than 30,000 companies worldwide.
The aim of the project is to help detect and destroy, using robotic systems, landmines, a very big problem for humanity for which serious solutions are being sought today, and which cause injury, disability and even death to many people, children, young people and innocents alike.
In the competition organized within this scope, the BUTECH team, which took part on behalf of Bahçeşehir University, reached the top 5 and took its place among the finalists.
Although the competition was aimed at universities in Arab countries, Bahçeşehir University is the only Turkish university accepted into the competition. The project carried out within BUTECH is being developed by Bahçeşehir University students who are BUTECH interns.
In the first stage of the competition, the participant reports were evaluated by the project review committee, and in the resulting ranking our team made it into the top 10 in 6th place and qualified for the second stage. As a result of the second-stage evaluations for the final, the "Cesur" Project became a finalist in 4th place and joined the last five projects.
In the final stage of the project, the NI equipment specified in the reports will be donated to our team by NI Arabia, and prototype work will gain momentum. The BUTECH team will continue its work and represent Bahçeşehir University and Türkiye in Lebanon at the final in July 2011.
The other universities that reached the final together with Bahçeşehir University are LUMS University - Pakistan, Higher College of Technology - Abu Dhabi, UAE, Texas A&M University - Qatar, and KSU - Saudi Arabia.
