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With the aim of bringing together new technologies and new professionalism, skills and talents, the Japanese multinational Fanuc chose to hold - for the first time in Italy - the Industrial Robotics Olympics, aimed at high school students and hosted at its headquarters in Lainate, just outside Milan.
A two-day competition to reward students' skills and creativity in programming robotic and automated solutions, opened with an inauguration that brought together managers, local politicians and machine tool specialists. The winners of the Lainate Olympiad will participate in September in the national final in Bolzano, while next year Lyon will host the final at the international level.
"This first Italian industrial robotics competition for high school students was conceived by Fanuc," explains Marco Delaini, managing director of Fanuc Italia, "and is sponsored by Anipla, Assolombarda, Fondazione Ucimu, Regione Lombardia, Siri Association and WorldSkills."
The initiative aims to offer students an opportunity for on-the-job training through the performance of theoretical and practical tests aligned with the highest standards. Participating schools will compete in the robot system integrator category.
In our country-second in Europe after Germany and sixth in the world for production, exports and consumption of machine tools-"we import robots and then implement and integrate them into larger and more complex production systems, which we then in turn export abroad," notes Domenico Appendino, Siri president.
Who notes, "we are good at finding new solutions, devising systems that are not developed elsewhere, having creativity in innovation, moving from the standardization of technologies to their customization." And it is on this path that, according to all insiders, schools and young students must continue to think and realize the future of business and manufacturing.
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