{"id":3862,"date":"2021-02-24T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T09:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2021-02-22T13:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T13:58:20","slug":"pgr-success-in-highfield-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2021\/02\/24\/pgr-success-in-highfield-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"PGR Success in Highfield Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to congratulate Yijie (Ink) Gao, who recently joined WSA as a PhD student, on her win for the MLH Best Hardware Hack prize in the February 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/highfieldhack.co.uk\/\">Highfield Hack<\/a> competition.<\/p>\n<p>Ink and her Digi-Key collaborators built Gua, a \u201cviable monster robot living in the garbage dump of the wasteland era\u201d, a kind of robotic pet who can interact with humans whilst demonstrating innate characteristics. Gua aims to address the benefits of pet ownership for humans, articulating the qualities and behaviours of a real-life pet.<\/p>\n<p>Ink\u2019s description of this fantastic and thoughtful project can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/devpost.com\/software\/gua?ref_content=my-projects-tab&amp;ref_feature=my_projects\">here<\/a>, including the original inspiration as well as the outcomes of the team\u2019s creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to congratulate Yijie (Ink) Gao, who recently joined WSA as a PhD student, on her win for the MLH Best Hardware Hack prize in the February 2021 Highfield Hack competition. Ink and her Digi-Key collaborators built Gua, a \u201cviable monster robot living in the garbage dump of the wasteland era\u201d, a kind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2021\/02\/24\/pgr-success-in-highfield-hackathon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PGR Success in Highfield Hackathon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[466],"tags":[129913,892463,364],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competition","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-hackathon","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3864,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}