Students fly the green flag at world robotics contest

A group of north Cork students has traded the Rebel County for Orange County this week as they carry the green flag into a world robotics competition in California.

The nine first, second and third-year students at Davis College, Mallow, were part of a team that won out, over seven other Cork schools, in a contest that challenged their skills at building, programming and testing their robots.

But rather than a traditional ‘robot wars’ encounter in which machines set out to destroy each other, the goal is for pairs of teams to scores points by picking up sacks and dropping them in designated play areas.