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Engineering students of PolyU win championship at ASM Technology Award 2019

Shreyas Tanna

An annual event organized in 2015, draws attention to the excellence in technology and mirrors the outstanding final year projects of undergraduates from top-notch schools and faculties engineering in Hong Kong.

This year the winning team presented a project developed by a trio group from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of PolyU. Presenting their final year project titled, ‘ASME Competition Robot Development & Vision Based Target Alignment’, the group was awarded a gold award at the competition.

The team had developed a semi-automated robot with a unique gripper design for garbage collection, and it also used the help of vision-based alignment. The robot has among others a feature of motorized platform used for navigating a compact environment and a micro controller system for wireless communication and control, in addition to a vision based system for object detection and robot positioning.

The robot was allegedly designed in two stages, from studying real-life tools such as forklift, dump cart and robotic arms.

The annual event has been organized since 2015 to recognize excellence in technology, showcasing outstanding final year projects of undergraduates from top faculties and schools of engineering in Hong Kong.

Participating for the fifth time, PolyU won the championship for the second time. The entry of PolyU student project belonged to the top ten final year projects and were nominated by Hong Kong’s five universities. Apart from prizes, the winning teams will be invited to attend ASM technology tour to Europe.

Shreyas Tanna

Shreyas Tanna

The winner of the title Mr. Pune 2009, Mr. Shreyas Tanna is currently the young, dashing, and dynamic CEO of a market research company called ResearchNReports in Pune. Fondly known as RNR, the company specializes in market research as well as industry analysis, and is closely associated with its parent company Absolute Market Insights (AMI). Mr. Shreyas Tanna began his corporate journey as the Head of Corporate sales & PR at RED Entertainment while pursuing his degree for MMS (Marketing) from the MGM College of Management, Mumbai. After accomplishing the tedious task of balancing his work and education, he further polished his skills in Corporate Sales, Public Relations, Channel Development, Global Client Engagement, Strategic Consulting, and Brand Development by working with HDFC Life and Researchmoz Global Pvt. Ltd. His dedication towards his work has even won him accolades such as the National Level Performer 2013 – HDFC Life and Mr. Research Moz 2015. A disciplined individual with a loving heart, he is often seen taking crisp walks with an engrossed look and a gentle smile within the premises of his company to interact with the various departments. And he will be usually followed by an adorable trail of his beloved trio of Shih Tzu babies proudly known as Gucci, Drake, and Paris. The most enticing thing that you will notice about this content and proud pet parent is his infectious positivity and the firm belief in his eyes, a reflection of his favorite quote, “LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL!”