The highlight of Vellore Institute of Technology’s (VIT) three-day technological fest graVITas was the robot fight being held at the open stadium in its Vellore campus on Saturday.
The creativity and ingenuity of students from various streams of engineering, like mechanical, electronics and electrical and communication, were on display at the event, which has become a regular fixture at VIT since 2008.
VIT vice-president G.V. Selvam witnessed Saturday’s events. “Developing a robot is not child’s play. It takes at least three years of joint effort from like-minded teammates to make it work,” said Adwyck Gupta, a third-year EEE student from the institution.