hyderabad if you hate cutting overgrown grass in your garden the participants at the robocamp 06 have a solution for you a group of students from various engineering colleges were putting together a robot grass leveller at the robocamp conducted by the international institute of information technology iiit on its campus in gachibowli on sundaythe robot emits infra red ir rays with which it detects greenery upon detection of greenery the robot guided by a sensor will move towards the grass a pair of scissors will cut the grass as per a programme on the micro processor chip insidemanual labour could be reduced by using the robot further advancements can be introduced so that the robot can collect the cut grass and dispose it into a dustbin said one of the team members a usha sundari of aurora engineering collegethe camp that began on may 25 has seen 107 participants from various engineering colleges from across the state national institutes of technology nits and indian institutes of technology iits after a few seminars and brain storming sessions students came together to form teams and build robots on sundaya unmanned robotic crane built from junk and parts of tape recorder was ready for display even while other teams were still putting together their robots the crane can be operated with a computer without the physical presence of an operator on the cranethe robot can be programmed to do certain tasks which need no humans monitoring we have been working on it for the past four years with every contest we strive to add new features the next step will be to develop robot with artificial intelligence said j krishna prasad of j b institute of technologywhile some already put together their robots others were still figuring out some technicalities but most of them said they would take up robotics for a career the participants were assisted by team of mentors consisting of teaching faculty and students of iiit and chaitanya bharathi institute of technology cbit a firefighter minesweeper robots on the lines of nasas rovers were the other interesting modelson monday the robots of all teams will be ready for display where the best will be awarded