YEREVAN. - The Union of Information Technology Enterprises announces 2012 as competition year of ‘unmanned aircrafts’ in the framework of Armenian open tournament of robots (ArmRobotics). The participants must design and create devices that will be able to survey the area during the flight, to understand signs of positioning, to send online images, to find special target, to throw a load of 300 grams at the target and to return to the starting point.

The robot can be constructed in any way: VTOL (vertical take-off and landing), CTOL (conventional take-off and landing), STVOL (short vertical take-off and landing). The take-off and landing of the robot can be controlled automatically as well as remote.

Applicants can register on the website and must present the robot’s thorough design and plan ten days after the registration.

The competition is organized by The Union of Information Technology Enterprises. It is sponsored by VivaCell-MTS, the technical sponsor is ‘ArtinVaruzhan’ company. Armenian MOD and Microsoft innovation center support the competition as well.