RoboSub 2024

We are a 13th-year robotics team from San Diego, California, with students ranging from 8th grade to college seniors. We currently participate in the FIRST Tech Challenge, RoboBoat, RoboSub, RobotX, and Donkey Car robotics programs. Our goal is to be able to learn the most we can about robotics and to spread all that knowledge to others, as seen through our team motto: To learn, to share, to innovate, to inspire!

Amador Valley High School

Amador Valley High School Robotics Club

Pleasanton, California, USA

The Amador Valley High School Robotics Club (AVBotz) is a student-run robotics team of Amador Valley High School students in Pleasanton, California, a suburb on the East Bay of Silicon Valley. AVBotz was founded in 1999 as a means for students at Amador Valley to explore and apply technologies related to the field of robotics. Since then, our members have perpetuated a legacy of learn-by-doing problem-solving and independent learning, designing our own AUVs from scratch.

Autonomous Maritime Robotics Association at Embry-Riddle Aeronauttical University

Team Unsinkable

Daytona Beach, Florida, USA

Team Unsinkable is part of the Autonomous Maritime Robotics Association representing Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The team is completely student-led and consists of many different undergraduate students with majors such as Mechanical Engineering , Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Software Engineering.

Beaver Country Day School

BeaverAUV

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA

Beaver Country Day is a high school in Chestnut Hill, MA. Our team is excited to come back to RoboSub!

BRAC University

BRACU Duburi

1st Place Website

Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Our team BRACU Duburi has been the pioneer of underwater robotics research in Bangladesh and since has been developing and paving the way for underwater research in Bangladesh. Our goal at team Duburi is to utilize the advances made in autonomous underwater navigation and machine learning powered data collection and analysis to sustainably develop solutions for water pollution reduction, unnamed search-and-rescue missions and autonomous monitoring and research in areas of the oceans in which manned-missions are quite impossible.

California State University, Los Angeles

RoboSubLA

Los Angeles, California, USA

RoboSubLA is an interdisciplinary student team at Cal State LA, focused on the design, implementation, and competition of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. We work closely with students, faculty, and industry partners to provide hands-on experience and build better engineers for the workforce of tomorrow.

Carnegie Mellon University

TartanAUV

6th Place Autonomy Challenge

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

TartanAUV is a competitive robotics team from Carnegie Mellon University that combines computer science and engineering fields of study with applied software, hardware, and mechanics. We compete in RoboSub, which is an annual competition where universities from around the world compete by designing autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that must autonomously navigate obstacles, move and manipulate objects, detect hydroacoustic pingers, and fire torpedoes to earn points.

Cornell University

Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

3rd Place Autonomy Challenge

Ithaca, New York, USA

Since 1999, Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle has been giving students the opportunity to hone their engineering skills on cutting-edge robotics. With no professional aid, the 50 members of our mechanical, electrical, software, and business sub-teams fully control the design and manufacturing process, creating a wholly new vehicle from the ground up every year. And we have a lot to show for it: seven RoboSub victories to-date.

Duke University

Duke Robotics Club

Durham, North Carolina, USA

The Duke Robotics Club is a student-run organization in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. Our mission is to provide Duke undergraduate and graduate students a place to pursue their interest in robotics by working on high-impact, large-scale robotics projects and competitions, primarily in the realm of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). These projects allow our talented students to hone their skills and demonstrate the strength of Duke Engineering.

École de Technologie Supérieure

SONIA

Special Award Best in Style

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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S.O.N.I.A (Système d’Opération Nautique Intelligent et Autonome) is a scientific club from École de Technologie Supérieure in Montreal, QC, which has been designing and manufacturing autonomous submarines for 25 years. S.O.N.I.A was founded in 1999 and its members have designed a total of 8 autonomous submarines since. The club is made up of students from programs in mechanics, electrical, automated production and software.

Gibson Ek High School

Gibson Ek High School Robotics Team

Special Award Rookie of the Year

Issaquah, Washington, USA

Gibson Ek is a choice high school offering an innovative educational model open to any Issaquah School District student looking for a more personalized, authentic, project-based approach to learning. We are a community of creators, thinkers, makers, artists, engineers, thespians, writers, scientists, marketers, designers, collaborators, friends, mentors and advocates – all reimagining learning together as we create a place where students find and develop their passions to make a difference in the world.

Harvey Mudd College

MuddSub

Claremont, California, USA

MuddSub is a passionate team of students dedicated to building an autonomous underwater robot. As an organization, MuddSub combines priorities for individual growth, exploration, and experimentation with rigorous engineering and design processes. From a technical perspective, the team strives to develop a truly autonomous vehicle using cutting-edge techniques to understand, navigate, and interact with the environment. MuddSub fosters and develops the technical, interpersonal, professional, and leadership abilities of all members.

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

AUV-IITB

1st Place Technical Design Report

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Team AUV-IITB comprises over 50 talented students from diverse disciplines dedicated to advancing autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology. With a decade of participation in RoboSub, we have consistently demonstrated innovation and expertise. Our team’s passion for underwater robotics drives us to push boundaries, fostering a collaborative environment where engineering excellence thrives.

Istanbul Technical University

ITU AUV Team

3rd Place Design Documentation

1st Place-TIE Design Presentation

Special Award Best in Style

Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

The ITU AUV Team was established in 2018 within the Istanbul Technical University, stemming from our founders’ desire to blend their two years of experience in underwater robotics with autonomous technologies, following their initiation in 2016. As one of the few teams representing our country in both international competitions such as RoboSub, SAUVC, RAMI, and domestic competitions like Teknofest, we continue to advance our work in autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology.

Kennesaw State University

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team

Marietta, Georgia, USA

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Kennesaw State University’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) team has members who are undergraduate students pursuing degrees in Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, and Mechatronic engineering that compete in the annual Robosub competition. As a result, our team gains valuable real-world engineering experience, networking opportunities, and access to new research from all competing teams.

McGill University

McGill Robotics

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Since 2013, McGill Robotics has been building robots to inspire students and inspiring students to build robots. With 170 individuals from engineering and computer science, our team works year-round to design an AUV, UAV, and Mars Rover for international competitions. In addition to competing at RoboSub, we’re helping researchers at McGill use our AUV to conduct aquatic environmental studies.

Montana State University

RoboCats

Bozeman, Montana, USA

The RoboCats are a interdisciplinary group of undergraduate students at Montana State University that work on an AUV to compete at the RoboSUB Competition.

North Carolina State University

AquaPack Robotics

Special Award Teamwork / City of Irvine

Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

We are a team of undergraduate and graduate students that build autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) to compete. In addition to building AUVs, we hold multiple community outreach events to share our love for robots with the world.

San Diego State University

Mechatronics

San Diego, California, USA

Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary team comprised of undergraduate business and mechanical, electrical, and software engineering students from San Diego State University.
Our goal is to give hands-on experience to passionate students through challenging robotics projects like autonomous submarines (RoboSub) and autonomous land vehicles.

Shenzhen Technology University

DragonLeap

Shenzhen, Guangdon, China

We are students from different majors at Shenzhen Technology University, and our love for underwater vehicle led us to organize a club, and we built a platform for everyone to communicate with each other and learn from each other.

Si Se Puede Foundation

Desert WAVE

1st Place Autonomy Challenge

Chandler, Arizona, USA

The Si Se Puede Foundation sponsors the Desert WAVE (Women in Autonomous Vehicle Ebgineering) team in order to help bridge the STEM divide for women going into STEM fields. The mission of Desert WAVE is to provide a supportive and engaging environment where female engineering students can come together to grow and accomplish amazing things. The team prepares our members with interpersonal, professional, and real-world technical skills necessary to excel in their studies and careers. Desert WAVE hopes to serve as an inspiration for the community and as role models for the next WAVE of engineers.

Stanford University

Stanford AUV

Stanford, California, USA

Team Simplexity

San Diego, California, USA

Texas A&M University

WIRED AUV

College Station, Texas, USA

WIRED AUV is the Women In Robotics, Engineering, and Development (WIRED) student organization at Texas A&M University. Established in 2015, our purpose is to build an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for the annual RoboSub Competition. WIRED AUV is a learning team that focuses on recruiting underrepresented freshmen and sophomores and cultivating a supportive environment to gain hands-on experience.

The Ohio State University

Ohio State Underwater Robotics

2nd Place Autonomy Challenge

2nd Place Design Documentation

1st Place System Assessment

Special Award Digital Warrior

Columbus, Ohio, USA

The Underwater Robotics Team at Ohio State is an interdisciplinary student project team that specializes in the design, construction, and operation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs). Our mission is to provide students with the opportunity to apply hands-on engineering and business principles as well as serve the community.

Troy High School

SPEAR

Fullerton, California, USA

We are SPEAR – a High School NJROTC underwater robotics team comprised of 20 students who currently attend Troy High School, located in California. Our team was created with the goal of increasing our knowledge and strengthening our skills in the field of engineering and computer science. Over the past year, we’ve expanded our team, building our second and completely custom autonomous underwater vehicle after participating in our first in-person RoboSub competition last season.

Universidade de Brasília

All Blue

Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil

We are All Blue, the newest Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) team in Brazil, and we’re making waves! Founded in December 2023 at the Univesidade de Brasilia (UnB), with the support of the Faculdade de Tecnologia (FT), we may be young, but our ambitions are anything but small.

Our Mission: Dive Deep, Innovate Boldly
Our mission is clear: to spearhead advancements in underwater robotics and foster a culture of continuous innovation in Brazil. We believe that AUVs have the potential to revolutionize various fields, from environmental monitoring and resource exploration to scientific research and underwater search and rescue. With each competition, with each exploration of Lake Paranoá’s depths, we push ourselves and the boundaries of technology.

University of Alberta

Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Project

7th Place Autonomy Challenge

1st Place Design Documentation

1st Place-TIE Design Presentation

1st Place Team Video

Special Award Digital Warrior

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Founded in 1996, the Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Project (ARVP) is a robotics project group at the University of Alberta. The team has built 11 autonomous vehicles and currently focuses on the annual RoboSub Competition. Each member is provided with the education and experience to master one portion of ARVP’s vehicle design. ARVP also engages in community outreach to promote post-secondary education and demonstrate practical uses of robotic technologies.

University of British Columbia

UBC Subbots

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

UBC Subbots is an engineering student design team dedicated to making an autonomous underwater vehicle for the RoboSub competition each year. The team was founded in 2017 made up of engineering and computer science students from multiple disciplines who have full control over the design, manufacturing and testing of the robot. Since becoming a team, we have learned a lot about designing for the underwater environment and are continuously improving upon our existing designs.

University of British Columbia, Okanagan

Okanagan Marine Design

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Okanagan Marine Design team is a group of enthusiastic engineering and computer science students united by our shared interest in marine technology. Our team is composed of four sub-teams, Mechanical, Electrical, Software and Management. Our diverse backgrounds, skills and engineering education converge to fuel our passion as we design an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle and gain invaluable hands-on experience in marine engineering.

University of California, Los Angeles & American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Bruin Underwater Robotics

Los Angeles, California, USA

Bruin Underwater Robotics (BUR) is a technical project part of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) at UCLA, dedicated to creating robots capable of operating in and exploring underwater environments. Underwater robotics is a unique field with applications such as ocean cleanup, marine biology research, and deep sea exploration. These environments provide exceptional engineering challenges that require creative problem-solving involving areas such as fluid dynamics, heat transfer, mechanisms, and circuit design.

Through the process of designing, fabricating, and testing a robot to perform those tasks under these conditions, members will learn about and draw from many areas of engineering knowledge, skill, and theory to collaboratively produce a fully functional and useful underwater robot.

University of Florida/Machine Intelligence Laboratory

SubjuGator

Gainesville, Florida, USA

SubjuGator is an autonomous underwater vehicle project designed/built by Machine Intelligence Laboratory (MIL) students at the University of Florida (UF). The University of Florida has participated in every RoboSub competition since its incarnation in 1998. The SubjuGator team is comprised of undergraduate and graduate students of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering.

University of Maryland, College Park

Robotics @ Maryland

College Park, Maryland, USA

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Robotics @ Maryland (R@M) is a student-run organization dedicated to furthering robotics education through the hands-on development of multiple robotic systems. R@M competes in three competitions internationally with over 100 active members. Our team cultivates a holistic understanding of robotics, encompassing design, fabrication, assembly, and testing, equipping members for real-world engineering challenges.

University of Michigan

Michigan Robotic Submarine

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Founded in 2020 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, our team consists of undergraduate students from a variety of academic backgrounds, collaborating each year to design, build, and program an autonomous underwater vehicle for the RoboSub competition. We aim to foster a collaborative, dynamic environment for our team members to apply knowledge and skills learned in class to the complex problem of underwater robotics.

University of Missouri - Columbia

Students' Underwater Robotics Foundation

Columbia, Missouri, USA

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Students’ Underwater Robotics Foundation(SURF) is a student organization from University of Missouri – Columbia that designs and manufactures marine robotic products. We strive to be an outlet for Mizzou students to put their engineering coursework into real-world applications. SURF also works closely with Mizzou’s College of Engineering to encourage youth and student involvement in STEM.

University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez

RUMarino Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

We are the first group of college students in the Caribbean to create an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that is competing in the RoboSub competition. The team includes 30 members from various engineering branches such as Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical, and Computer Engineering. By working together as a team and partnering with IEEE RAS, our members are taught revolutionary technology that will prepare them technically and professionally for their future careers.

University of Rhode Island

URI Hydrobotics

Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA

URI Hydrobotics is the undergraduate marine robotics team based at the University of Rhode Island.

Widener University

The Pride

Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

Technical Design Report | Team Introduction Video

The Widener University AUV Team consists of five senior undergraduate students, one faculty advisor, and one industry advisor. The students are majoring in Robotics Engineering and Electrical Engineering, and have sufficient knowledge and skills to design and build an AUV for the RoboSub competition. By utilizing different designing and fabrication methods, the team expects to complete the AUV design, building, testing, and excel in the competition.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Woo.Wave

Worcester, Massachusetts, USA