Announcements

A total of 89 students from New Zealand, who qualified through the New Zealand Robot Olympiad 2024, were invited to participate in the International Robot Olympiad 2024/25, the world’s largest annual robotics competition for school students. The event took place in...

A unique roadshow is set to tour across Aotearoa / New Zealand, featuring a life-size replica of NASA’s Opportunity rover, bringing space exploration closer to home. Accompanying the rover will be a NASA engineer who will share insights into the engineering marvels...

This year’s New Zealand Robot Olympiad was hosted at the Faculty of Engineering, with Dr Ho Seok Ahn as Chair, from July 9-19, where 250 school students from Year 1-13 were invited. Our future engineers enjoyed four individual games – line tracer, formula racing,...

We’ve had a busy few months, including publications, conferences, demos at New Zealand’s largest agricultural show and even television appearances! Professor Liz Broadbent was interviewed on Radio New Zealand around the dementia robots study which we ran....

The challenges of 2020 are not yet behind us, as a sudden Auckland lockdown forced a quick change of plan for our strategy meeting in Christchurch. However, this summer has been productive, and you can read all about it in our third newsletter...

Following lots of rescheduling in 2020, the New Zealand Robot Olympiad took place in December 2020, allowing teams to qualify for the International Robot Olympiad (IRO) which took place in January 2021. 50 students were selected to represent New Zealand at the...