第十三届全国机器人大赛

China's 13th National Robot Competition got underway in Mudanjiang of Heilongjiang Province on Sunday. University students from all around the country brought their android friends to participate in the competition. But many more people were there just to see the clever creations perform gymnastics and some stylish dance moves.
中国第13届全国机器人大赛星期天在黑龙江省牡丹江市开赛。来自全国各地的大学生们带着他们的机器人朋友来参加本次比赛。但是更多的人只是去那里观看这些聪明的创作品表演体操和一些时髦的舞步。

Your typical robot competition wouldn't be complete without robot football and some practical rescue operations. But at this year's competition, the bar was raised. New performances such as taekwondo and ballet have been added. Some participants even taught their robots how to do the exercises they had done in middle school.
没有机器人足球和一些实际救援行动，你的典型机器人比赛不会是圆满的。但是今年的比赛，难度提高了。加入了像跆拳道和芭蕾舞这样的新表演。一些参赛者甚至教他们的机器人如何做他们中学时代做过的运动。

These ballerinas performing "Swan Lake" are from a top-ranked university, Harbin Institute of Technology. According to their creators, one robot that is only 30 centimeters tall has 20 joints in its body. The creator says the team wants to give life to their robots by letting them dance like a real ballet dancer.
这些表演“天鹅湖”的芭蕾舞演员来自一所顶尖大学，哈尔滨工业大学。据它们的创作者表示，一个只有30厘米高的机器人身体里有20个接合点。创作者称他们的队伍想要赋予他们的机器人生命，让它们像一个真的芭蕾舞演员一样跳舞。

Wang Lei, student of Harbin Institute of Technology said, "Normally people use the word 'robotic' to name the style of body-popping dance, but we are doing it the opposite way, we want our robots to be graceful like human dancer."
哈尔滨工业大学的学生王磊表示：“通常，人们会用‘机器人的’这个词来形容霹雳舞的风格，但是我们用相反的方式创作，我们想让我们制作的机器人像人类舞者一样优雅。”

The spectators can't get enough of the robots doing their dance moves, but only the technical team knows how difficult the preparation work is. Before the competition officially started, they spent hours to adjust the settings and modify the program. Because in some of the events, once the stopwatch ticks off, the competition must go on without any human guidance or control.
观众对机器人正在表演的舞步还不能满足，但是只有技术团体知道准备工作有多么困难。在比赛正式开始之前，他们花了很多个小时调整装置，修改程序。因为在一些比赛中，一旦秒表开始计时，比赛就必须在无人类引导和控制下进行。

Liu Hong, tutor of Harbin Institute of Technology said, "It's a crowded environment, and the sensors in the robots are very sensitive to light and background noise. So it is indeed a big challenge for my students."
哈尔滨工业大学的导师刘宏表示：“这是一个拥挤的环境，机器人身上的灵敏元件对光和背景噪音都非常敏感。所以这对我的学生来说确实是一个巨大的挑战。”

To end on Wednesday, the National Robot Competition is an effort to promote research in autonomous mobile robotics technology in a challenging structure. The competition provides students with hands-on engineering design challenges, and includes components of mechanical, computer, and control software and system integration.
将在周三闭幕的全国机器人大赛是为了促进挑战性结构中的自主型移动机器人技术研究。比赛为学生提供了实际工程设计难题，比赛还包括了机械装置元件、电脑以及操控软件和综合系统。