The Hu-More-Bot team was originally founded in 2019 under the name Robo quartet.
We all love robotics and technology, that’s what brought us together as a team, although the team members have changed over the years. Our team has been accumulating success since the beginning, because in the year of its foundation, we won the MIRK 2019 OnStage league with our performance “The Bremen Town Musicians”.

In the same year, some of us from the team also participated in other competitions, such as the Robot Exatlon held in Nyíregyháza. After that, as we all remember, the 2020-21 pandemic followed and the whole country was forced to work from home, but this did not deter us. We spent these two years preparing a more ambitious show called Treasure hunters.
With this performance, we achieved not only domestic but international success, as we made it to the 2022 RoboCup Junior Europen in Porto, from which we returned with the special award for Best Technical Solutions. This competition gave us a huge boost, as we decided that we would like to qualify for next year’s World Championship.

So we started working under the name Hu-More-Bot. Their performance in 2023 was called The Ladybug of Szeged, which was also a great success with the Hungarian audience, as it was about a Hungarian invention, Dr. Dániel Muszka’s robot ladybug, so we made it to the second time. This time, however, we traveled to Bordeaux, France, for the World Championship.

This competition is a world-wide known and recognized competition, where not only the competition but also the technological innovations are given considerable emphasis. This competition provided us with a great experience and we also won the OnStage superteam league with the Slovak and Japanese teams.
This experience significantly influenced us, since before this year’s qualification competition we were already thinking about what the world competition would be like. We raised the standard for this year’s competition, as in our presentation this year we interviewed a robot equipped with artificial intelligence, which was also a huge success.
We are currently looking for sponsors for our trip to the World Cup this year in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

If someone hears: RoboCup world cup, they might first think of a group of young boys with nerd glasses on their heads, coffee infused and staring at monitors.
Honestly, this isn’t quite accurate. The competition is actually a big celebration for science and robotics among the youth. This event took place in Eindhoven, Netherlands. This year approximately 300 teams from almost 45 countries competed in various leagues such as @home, rescue, football, and theater leagues.
We Hungarians were also there, I participated with the Hu-More-Bot team in the theater league, where about 25 teams compared their knowledge and creativity for the best performance prize. There was everything from Robert Zemeckis’s Back to the Future to Baymax from Big hero six. We didn’t come empty handed, we won the honor of bringing Hungarian artistic talent onto an international stage this year.
Rick, as the artist who uses artificial intelligence, created masterpieces with it’s help and shared their stories. The robot is controlled by an HP Victus gaming laptop, a Raspberry Pi Pico, and a Dell Latitude 3140 laptop serving as its head. The control laptop plays a more important role than it might seem at first glance, as it handles speech processing, replying, and generating images.

It is a strong laptop, but for us,it wasn’t enough in terms of performance, so we switched to an even more powerful HP OMEN with a better graphics card. While it was initially slow, by the end, it worked fine, so the robot answered faster than Chat GPT 3.5. The robot also gestures along with speech and watches with its eyes, if it sees something, it will turn to face it. Unfortunately, we didn’t finish on the podium, since there were a few problems, but this did not discourage us, as I mentioned earlier, this is just a big party.
We had fun, making so many new friends during the competition, and most importantly, learned a lot from the problems we faced, and other teams. By observing other team’s robots, technical upgrades, their problems, and solutions, we came up with many ideas to improve. During the Superteam we were part of a team with Iranian and Canadian teams. Our chosen topic was healthcare. Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough time for robot assembly as we also had to make a technical video and write the performance, so most of it was only half a day. We put a lot of time and energy into this robot, hoping to get the maximum out of ourselves. I think both we and the robot did well. I’m curious
what awaits us in the future and what other robots will we be lucky enough to build.