Taking Up a Challenge as an Engineer

ID: 592

Taking Up a Challenge as an Engineer

Speakers: UBC Open Robotics | The University of British Columbia

Highlights

Double awards winner of RoboCup@Home Education Online Challenge 2020:

• Silver Award (Open)
• People’s Choice Award

@Home Education Participants: Osman Baalbaki, Francisco Farinha, Nick Ioannidis, Simar Sidhu, Clément Thorens, Andrew Xie

Coaches: Pankaj Bagga, Pei Jia

UBC Open Robotics is an Engineering Design Team primarily composed of undergraduate students in fields ranging from Engineering to Computer Science to Arts at the University of British Columbia. This was the team’s first year competing in any RoboCup competition. Despite receiving the TurtleBot 2 hardware mere weeks prior to the city lockdown they were able to stay organized and effectively meet competition requirements, receiving both the RoboCup@Home Education League’s Silver Award and People’s Choice Award!