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Robotics Challenge 2026: 🤖 MISSION ACCOMPLISHED ON PLANET OMFIBIA! 🚀🛰️ What happens when you give a group of first-year MEng Robotics and AI students six weeks, a fictional planet, and a mission to plant 50 seeds using autonomous robots? This. 👇🤖🌍 Welcome to Omfibia. 🤖🌍 This time they transformed the Innovation Lab into a fictional planet where 14 student-built robots took on one mission: navigate a challenging arena, plant 50 seeds and make it safely back to base. The challenge is designed by academics who teach on the undergraduate course. 2nd and 3rd year students support their 1st year course fellows in their mission. A truly collaborative experience, consolidating two terms of learning into one ultimate arena. The result was a day packed with creativity, teamwork, problem-solving and plenty of competitive spirit at UCL East, as students put months of learning into practice under pressure. From daring obstacle-course runs to creative engineering solutions. Between the whirr of motors, last-minute fixes and cheers from teammates and spectators. 🏆 Huge congratulations to our top three teams who conquered the arena: 🥇 TARS (1,060 points!) 🥈 Monkey Kong (950 points!) 🥉 Kayubo (850 points!) UCL East student, Kubra Arslan, takes us behind the scenes of this year’s mission – to navigate the fictional planet of Omfibia, plant seeds, overcome obstacles, and safely return to base. Watch it unfold below. 👇 UCL Engineering | UCL East | UCL Centre for Engineering Education | Igor Gaponov | Daniel Tozadore | Oliver Collier

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