Inspired by the phenomenon of Catatumbo, in the state of Zulia, Venezuela, a group of 10 young people created a machine, baptized with that name, that allows them to show their technological skills in the Robotics World Cup to be held in Switzerland from 13 to 16 October.

According to María Victoria Uzcátegui, mentor of the Venezuelan robotics team, the young Venezuelans, from Team Venezuela, have worked for six months with the support of the First Global Challenge organization, which each year selects a topic or problem of global relevance that inspire the development of technologies that help solve it.

This year, the First Global organization focused the challenge on carbon dioxide emissions. The group of young people from Zulia decided to call their creation Catatumbo, since the well-known lightning in the region “produces 250 lightning strikes per square kilometer about 300 days a year and that makes this area of ​​Zulia one of the largest generators of ozone on the planet.”

Uzcátegui told the Efe news agency that everything “started with a 3,000-piece kit that the First Global organization sent to the 190 participating countries.” From there, Catatumbo emerged, putting together “separate pieces, motors, aluminum profiles, servomotors, many pieces and each country with its ingenuity has to make the design as functional as possible.”

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