The final round of the Asia-Pacific Robot Contest 2013 (ABU Robocon) will take place at the Da Nang Tien Son Sports Arena on 18 August.  The main sponsor for the event is the Toyota Motor Viet Nam Company.

There are 19 teams participating from 18 countries and territories in the Asia-Pacific region, namely Viet Nam, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Mongolia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Fiji, Brunei, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Egypt and Russia.  The LH-SEE and LH-NVN-EAGLE teams from Lac Hong University will represent Viet Nam at this year’s competition.

The LH-SEE team won the national Robocon 2013 championship

This year’s contest takes “The Green Planet” as its theme and conveys the following message:  “Each nation is a piece of the puzzle that forms the world; the responsibility to protect the earth thus lies on the shoulders of each person living on it.  Awareness and actions - that is what we need to sustain life in our common home - the Earth”.

The finals will be broadcast live on Vietnam Television channels 2 and 4 (VTV2 and VTV4).