City's Robotics Society is supporting students by sparking creativity and innovative thinking through exciting competitions. It's a place where students from all subjects come together to enhance their robotics knowledge and develop transferable skills for the future.
Winners of the City Robotics End of Line Competition
Meet Team Wall-E members Danylo Piatyhorets, Karolina Wasnik, and Aaron Charles Rodrigues, who successfully built the fastest robot and were crowned champions of the End of Line Competition hosted by the IEEE City Robotics Society in December 2023.
Hear from the inspiring City students as they share their journey to first place, what they love most about being part of the society and offer advice for students interested in robotics.
Sixteen teams were challenged to build the fastest and most accurate robot that could race across three different tracks. Professor Rajkumar Roy, Executive Dean of the School, and Professor Sanowar, Associate Dean of SSE (SST), awarded prizes to the winners.
Winners of the Judges Choice and Best Design Award
We also spoke with Team Devils Motherboard made up of members Sayeda Tapader, Haneen Graoui, Vithuja Thangarajah and Aman Raj Kaith who were awarded both the Judges Choice and Best Design award, as well as placing third overall in the competition. Sayeda shares her experience:
"The Robotics Society are a great help, giving us resources like starter code for those who have never coded before. The society has so many chances to meet and network with new people. The committee is expanding with a new website, and they're working on arranging internships for students, it's great to see what they are achieving and be part of it."
Haneen reflected on their teamwork, "We all had to learn everything from scratch. During one of the laps, our robot was about to fall but magically pulled itself together and stayed on track. We didn't have to intervene once, so that was really amazing and we were all honestly so proud of what we achieved."
Vithuja shared, "We really put effort into designing our robot. We had to remove one of the boards from our robot to make it less heavy and use very lightweight materials. We were a smaller team of four and didn't have any competition experience but came together well and won this award."
Aman added, "Going the extra mile and putting in 100% really paid off. Our success was built on teamwork and playing to our strengths. Every idea was taken seriously, with everyone contributing. Coding tested our patience and resilience, much like searching for a needle in a haystack, once you find it, it's the best feeling ever. It was really nice to see academic staff from different departments taking part."
The positive impact of the Robotics society
Karolina said: "Being a part of the society has definitely introduced me to something new."
"The amazing thing about Robotics is that it’s not just programming, it’s not just engineering, it’s a combination of both. So, us as students coming from diverse educational backgrounds – we all have to take up a challenge and step out of the field we work in every single day and work with something new.”
“City has definitely supported us through providing the resources, the venue, and the lab for the upcoming Micromouse competition, but also our university is where we met people as passionate as us about improving."
Danylo adds, "We are currently taking part in the Micromouse competition, I got inspired by our previous success. It would be really nice to take a second win in a row. It’s a really nice society and everyone’s welcome; find a society committee member if you would like to get involved."
Best of luck to everyone taking part in the upcoming Micromouse competition.
To find out more about the Robotics society, you can follow @CityRobotics on Instagram or visit their website below.