• Stimulate young talents’ innovation vitality and passion, and enhance their independent learning and practice ability
• Cultivate interdisciplinary and applied talents to meet the new needs of industry development

On April 18, the 2023 ABB Cup Smart Technology Innovation Competition (” ABB Cup Innovation Competition “) with the theme of “Smart Technology, Creating the Future” was officially launched. This competition involves power electronics, machine learning, mathematical modeling, industrial robots, digital twins, human-computer interaction and other fields, aiming to cultivate young players’ open and innovative thinking, improve the players’ ability to solve the problems of real industrial scenes in the interdisciplinary integration, and more effectively support the training of local composite innovative talents.

Participants can choose one of the two sets of questions from the inverter semiconductor Temperature Prediction AI Modeling Challenge and the Robot Domino Digital remote Combat Competition to compete individually or as a team. Each team must select a team leader who will be responsible for team registration and solution submission. Click here to find out the details and how to register for the Innovation Competition.

Dr. Gu Chunyuan, Chairman of ABB China, said: “High-quality development requires highly skilled personnel, and in the context of the new era, new technologies, new industries and new models put forward new requirements for future excellent engineers. ABB Cup Intelligent Technology Innovation Competition is oriented towards engineering practice, and discusses with young students how to integrate multi-disciplinary and multi-professional advantages to solve technical problems in real scenes, comprehensively training students’ comprehensive innovation ability, engineering practice ability and system thinking, so as to adapt to the new situation of modern science and technology industry change.”

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Dr. Zhang Nan, Secretary-General of the Chinese Society of Automation, the co-organizer of the competition, said: “The construction of ‘new engineering’ vigorously promoted by the state emphasizes the cross-integration of science, humanities and engineering, and emphasizes the practicability, intersectionality and comprehensiveness of disciplines. The Innovation competition jointly organized by the Chinese Association of Automation and ABB is in line with this concept, focusing on the ability of students to comprehensively apply multidisciplinary knowledge to solve practical problems, helping students to broaden their horizons, break disciplinary barriers, try cross-border innovation, and select and cultivate composite ‘new engineering’ talents needed by future industries.”

The ABB Cup Innovation Competition is supported by the Embassy of Switzerland in China and the Consulate General of Switzerland in Shanghai. Swiss Ambassador to China Rui Bai said, “Since the establishment of China-Switzerland strategic cooperative partnership on innovation, the cooperation between the two countries in the field of scientific and technological innovation has yielded fruitful results. As a global technology leader headquartered in Switzerland and rooted in the Chinese market, ABB has actively paid attention to and promoted local sustainable development, and made ABB Cup Smart Technology Innovation Competition a leader in technology innovation and talent training cooperation between China and Switzerland.”