2018

The competition was held in Ninh Binh, Vietnam, in August 2018. The theme comes from a traditional game in ethnic region of Vietnam, namely ném còn (throwing shuttlecock). The goal of the game is to throw the shuttlecocks through the ring at height. In Vietnamese culture, the game is about celebration and making friendship.

In the game, each team are given a few shuttlecocks and needs to design two robots, one manual and one automatic robot. The manual robot needs to hand the shuttlecocks to the automatic robot, which attempts to throw the shuttlecocks through the rings (unlike the traditional game, there are three rings at various heights in this game). The winner can be achieved by points, or by immediate KO if the robots successfully throw the shuttlecocks through three rings, and for the highest ring, the shuttlecock lands on a golden disk on the opposite side. The winner of ABU Robocon 2018 is Lac Hong University coming from Vietnam.

A total of 36 teams involving public and private universities, Industrial Training Institute, High Technology Centre and Institut Kemahiran Mara participated in the competition. In this competition, UTM A team from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) was crowned as the national ROBOCON champion in the competition that was held at UNITEN, Bangi. With this winning, UTM is qualified to represent Malaysia at the International ABU ROBOCON competition in Vietnam