A robotics team, run entirely by students

Mechanical designs every moving part of the robot — drivetrain, arms, grippers, launchers, chassis — then builds it and rebuilds it after it breaks. Work starts in CAD, moves to the workshop for laser cutting, 3D printing and machining, and ends with the unglamorous part: making a mechanism repeatable enough to survive a whole match day.

Electrical handles everything between the battery and the motor: power distribution, motor drivers, microcontroller boards, sensor selection and the wiring harness. On competition day this sub-team is the difference between a robot that runs five matches and one that browns out in the second.

Programming writes the firmware and the control software — motion control, odometry, path planning, autonomous sequences and the manual driver interface. A Robocon match is three minutes long, so every routine has to be fast, deterministic and recoverable when the field is not where the robot thought it was.

Media & Marketing runs sponsorship outreach, the social accounts, this website, and the photo and video record of every build and competition. It is also the sub-team that keeps the team funded — components, machining and travel are paid for by proposals this group writes. You do not need to touch a robot to be essential to one.