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University of Tokyo Professor Shinichi Nakasuka and JAXA Astronaut Norishige Kanai announce the Philippines’ Team Inflection Point’s win during the 6th Kibo-RPC finals. Photo courtesy of JAXA/NASA. |
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) proudly announces that team Inflection Point of the Batangas State University (BatStateU) has won again in the international Kibo Robot Programming Challenge (Kibo-RPC), securing 3rd place in the final round. Team Inflection Point commanded NASA’s Astrobee robot aboard the Japanese “Kibo” module of the International Space Station (ISS) with their own program, competing against teams all over the world in image recognition accuracy and mission speed.
