The \u201c2026 Suncue Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Cup\u2014 National Agricultural Robot Competition\u201d kicked off on October 1, 2026, at NPUST\u2019s Shuey-Yun Hall plaza. Held alongside the \u201cAcademic Seminar on Agricultural and Bio-Industrial Machines\u201d and the society\u2019s annual meeting, the event drew enthusiastic participation from colleges and technical high schools across Taiwan. The competition was hosted by the Department of Biomechatronics Engineering at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST) with support from Suncue Company Ltd, and guidance from the Taiwan the Agriculture and Food Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NPUST President Chin-Lung Chang stated that amidst agricultural labor shortages and industrial transformation, smart agriculture practices will be critically important in the future. This year\u2019s competition uniquely incorporated operational facilities at NPUST\u2014such as forage fields, demonstration orchards, smart pigsties, and the Wildlife Rescue Center\u2014challenging students to apply sensing, AI image recognition, and robotics to real-world farming needs like field cruising, fruit harvesting, and animal transfer. Chang emphasized that the event helps cultivate practical problem-solving skills and turn classroom theory into real-world execution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Yi-Chih Chiu, President of the Taiwan Society of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics, noted that the competition\u2014renamed from \u201cField Robot\u201d to \u201cAgricultural Robot\u201d last year\u2014now spans agriculture, forestry, fishery, and livestock sectors. Demonstrating cross-disciplinary expertise in mechatronics, IoT, and sensing technology, all the robot entries were independently designed by the students. He thanked Suncue for sponsoring the event for the second consecutive year and praised NPUST for its long-term dedication to cultivating agricultural technology talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a core pillar of NPUST\u2019s development, the competition encouraged students to use a \u201ccommon carrier platform\u201d to design modified machinery tailored to diverse agricultural scenarios. College students competed using fully autonomous self-driving modes, while vocational high school students utilized programmable remote controls, effectively putting human-machine collaboration into practice and validating innovative agricultural solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10311,"template":"","genre":[],"colleges":[34],"visions":[30],"sdgs":[12,14,18,19,22,28],"class_list":["post-10253","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","colleges-college-of-engineering","visions-technology-agriculture","sdgs-zero-hunger","sdgs-quality-education","sdgs-decent-work-and-economic-growth","sdgs-industry-innovation-and-infrastructure","sdgs-responsible-consumption-and-production","sdgs-partnerships-for-the-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.npust.edu.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.npust.edu.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.npust.edu.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.npust.edu.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.npust.edu.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.npust.edu.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.npust.edu.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=10253"},{"taxonomy":"colleges","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.npust.edu.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colleges?post=10253"},{"taxonomy":"visions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.npust.edu.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/visions?post=10253"},{"taxonomy":"sdgs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.npust.edu.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sdgs?post=10253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}