The Robotics Club welcome night will be held this Friday 4th of March at the S block level 11 cantina at 5pm. Speakers will include QUT Blue Box (commercialisation), research academics, QUT careers, SEF technical services, and an overview of our plans for the semester and year including workshops and projects.
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New Competition! QUT Droid Racing 2016
QUT Robotics Club is organising a new competition in 2016, the QUT Droid Racing Competition! Find it under current projects.
Projects Updated
The club project pages have been updated, with last year’s projects archived and a new section for current projects. Find them in the menu. New projects will be added to this page throughout the year as they become available.
Calendar Updated
The calendar has been updated for 2016 with important academic dates. Look out for updates regarding our workshops and events as we prepare for this year’s robotic endeavors! Find it on the sidebar.
NI Autonomous Robotics Competition – Day 2 & Results
QUT Robotics Club participated in the National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition this past Monday and Tuesday 21st & 22nd of September. NI ARC is a student robotics competition designed to encourage development and innovation in the field of robotics. The NI ARC features competing student teams representing the top universities from across Australia and New …
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NIARC Day 1
Today was the first day of NIARC 2015! It was all about testing and practising on the track. The teams have arrived, the track is constructed, and a full day of testing and checking is over and done. Tomorrow trophies, cash prizes, and bragging rights are up for grabs. Our robot, “Proteus”, is ready, and …
NIARC Update
The QUT NIARC team has been working on our entry to the National Instruments Autonomous Robotics Competition since the beginning of the year, and now we are less than one week away from the live finals for the competition. Teams from New Zealand and Australia will battle head-to-head to claim the top spot as best …
Robotronica!
QUT is hosting Robotronica again this year, and QUT Robotics Club is involved in heaps of the exhibits this time around. Check out the event website at http://www.robotronica.qut.edu.au/
Semester 2 Welcome Night!
On Friday 31st of July (Friday week 2) QUT Robotics Club hosted our semester 2 welcome night. We had a great talk by Ray Russell about his career in aerospace and robotics engineering, and heard from various club members about our successes last semester and our plans for this semester. Everyone enjoyed catching up afterwards …
NQRoS Competition Wrap-Up
NQRoS was featured on the local news in Townsville! On Friday the 22nd of May, QUT Robotics Club participated in the inaugural North Queensland Robotic Sumo Competition (NQRoS) hosted by James Cook University (JCU) in Townsville. We took a team of 5 Robotics Club members and three robots to the competition. The original project page …