Student Robotics
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| April 13 2025 | Continuation of the Student Robotics 'Urban Heights' competition at the University of Southampton, with final results and awards presented. |
| April 12 2025 | Student Robotics 'Urban Heights' competition held at the University of Southampton, with multiple schools competing and receiving awards. |
| April 14 2024 | Conclusion of the Student Robotics competition at the University of Southampton. 'MAI' team from Gymnasium Markt Indersdorf, Germany won First Place, while Wisbech Grammar School secured Second Place. |
| April 13 2024 | First day of the Student Robotics competition held at the University of Southampton, featuring 69 league matches where teams competed with their robots in the 'Final Frontier' themed challenge. |
| March 2024 | Virtual competition broadcast live, with twenty-one matches conducted in a simulated competition environment. Wisbech Grammar School performed best, winning all four of their matches. |
| April 2 2023 | Conclusion of the Student Robotics competition at the University of Southampton. Haberdashers' School won First Place and the Robot and Team Image Award. Other notable awards included Abingdon School (Second Place), MAI from Germany (Third Place), and additional recognitions for Queen Mary's College, Sherborne School, Hampton School, and Lady Eleanor Holles School. |
| April 1 2023 | The in-person Student Robotics competition was held at the University of Southampton, featuring 70 league matches with diverse robot designs. Teams competed in the 'Greed' challenge, capturing tokens of different values using various strategies like suction systems, lifting mechanisms, and flywheels. |
| March 2023 | Student Robotics held a virtual competition broadcast live from Southampton, with twenty matches testing teams' coding skills. Haberdashers' College won decisively, achieving 1st place in all four of their matches. |
| 2022 | Student Robotics transitioned to Python 3 on their physical kit and implemented a new computer vision system based on OpenCV for their robotics competition. |
| 2022 | Raspberry Pi 4 replaced the Odroid U3 as the central controller for the robotics kit, marking a significant update to the competition's hardware platform. |
| April 24 2022 | Continuation of the 'This Way Up' Student Robotics competition. Hills Road Sixth Form College won first place, Queen Mary's College secured second place, and Brockenhurst College took third place. Additional awards were given, including the Rookie Award to Abingdon School. |
| April 23 2022 | Student Robotics held the 'This Way Up' competition at the University of Southampton, marking their return to in-person competitions after the COVID-19 pandemic. The event featured 23 teams competing in two arenas, with a new task involving moving and stacking cans of food. |
| 2021 | Student Robotics held the 'Radars of the Lost Ark' competition, which was conducted remotely using a virtual simulator. The competition featured a novel navigation system using virtual radios to navigate an arena and claim towers, with the competition structured across four game 'modules' introduced progressively over several weeks. |
| 2021 | Competition results announced: St Paul's College won first place, Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah secured second place, and The Malay College Kuala Kangsar took third place. Additional awards included the Rookie Award going to We Robot and the Committee Award to Hills Road Sixth Form College Team 2. |
| July 2020 | First 4-way tie in competition history, followed by a tiebreaker match. JAMDynamics won first place, Kenilworth Sixth Form took second place and the Rookie Award, Lawrence Sheriff School placed third, and South Wilts Grammar School received the Committee Award. |
| July 2020 | Virtual Student Robotics competition held across three weekends using a simulated Webots environment, with teams submitting code and matches pre-recorded and live-streamed on YouTube. |
| April 18 2020 | Original planned date for Student Robotics competition at Reading University Students Union, which was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic. |
| April 7 2019 | Continuation of the Student Robotics 'Caldera' competition, with The Ladies' College Guernsey winning first place, Hills Road Sixth Form College securing second place, and Hampton School and Lady Eleanor Holles School taking third place. |
| April 6 2019 | Student Robotics 'Caldera' competition held at the University of Southampton, featuring 37 teams competing in a robotic challenge involving moving cardboard tokens and capturing zones around a central 'volcano' obstacle. |
| 2018 | Student Robotics decided to take a year off from their main competition due to organisational issues, with the goal of reorganizing the charity to ensure its future sustainability. |
| April 21 2018 | SourceBots ten-team robotics competition held at the University of Southampton over two days (21-22 April). |
| 2015 | Odroid U3 was introduced as the central controller for the Student Robotics kit, replacing the previous BeagleBoard. |
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