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Mongolian team wins second place at the 18th ABU Robocon 2019 Mongolia. ABU Robocon started in 1991, extended the concept from NHK Robocon which restricted to teams from Japan only. Robocon  Each year the competition has different topics, but generally speaking two or more robots must be used to complete the tasks. One of the robots would be manual control while the others are automatic. The best robots usually weight more than 10 kg and span in one square meter area. To build the robots, contestants, who are restricted to be undergraduate students, must possess rich knowledge in programming, mechanical designand electronic circuit design. Each game is between two teams, often named red and blue. The playing field is symmetrical and robots from both teams start at the same condition (except for Robocon 2015 which employed a turn-based game based on badminton).  [Source: ABU_Robocon_2019_Web] 18th ABU Robocon 2019 Mongolia Th...

Mongolian team wins second place at international robot contest Picture Credit: Voice of Mongolia Webpage Under the auspices of Prime Minister Khurelsukh, the 18th ABU Robocon 2019 Mongolia, the international robot contest was jointly held in Ulaanbaatar, organized by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union and the Mongolian National Public Radio and Television. As the host country, two national teams of Mongolia got the right to partake in the competition. Out of 17 teams of 16 countries, the Hong Kong team won first place by defeating the first team of Mongolia in the final match. Furthermore, Best Idea Award went to the Indonesian team, Best Engineering Award to the Chinese team and Best Design Award to the Japanese team. 

World’s oldest evidence of horse dentistry found in Mongolia That dental practice, which dates to as early as about 2800 years ago, coincided with the appearance in Mongolia of metal bits that made it easier for riders to control horses. Oldest evidence of horse dentistry Mongolian pastoralists were trying to remove troublesome teeth from horses’ mouths almost 3200 years ago, making those mobile herders the earliest known practitioners of horse dentistry, a new study finds. Those initial, incomplete tooth removals led to procedures for extracting forward-positioned cheek teeth known as first premolars from young horses, say archaeologist William Taylor and his colleagues. That dental practice, which dates to as early as about 2800 years ago, coincided with the appearance in Mongolia of metal bits that made it easier for riders to control horses, according to the researchers. Long-distance travel and mounted warfare with sedentary civilizations across Asia soon fo...