LU Snobots

HuroCup:

 🏆 Kid-sized Pro Overall Runner-up

 🏆 Adult-size Pro Overall 3rd Place

Autonomous Cars Challenge (Physical – Pro): Making our competition debut, Snobots dominated by:

 🏆 Overall League Championship!

 🏆 Winning 4 of the 5 challenge categories

 🏆 Setting multiple event records

We were also proud to have two Sudbury U19 teams, SnoBots Jr.  winning the 🏆 U19 All-Round Championship, and ROBOPARKS LU winning 2nd place🥈 in the U19 Marathon and 3rd place 🥉 in the U19 Basketball. These students were trained in the Laurentian Intelligent Mobile Robotics Lab (LIMRL) and were coached by ROBOPARKS Inc., Rainbow District School Board, and Sudbury Catholic District School Board.

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 🏆 In the Adult-Size category, we placed 3rd overall in the prestigious All-Round event, which recognizes teams that use the same robot across multiple disciplines, a true test of versatility and design strength. We also took 3rd in Manipulation (Archery – 6th, Basketball – 2nd), 5th in Hybrid (Mini-DRC), and 3rd in Mobility (Sprint – 3rd, Marathon – 2nd, Obstacle Run – 2nd).

 🏆 Our Kid-Size team placed 5th in All-Round, with strong results like 2nd in United Soccer, 4th in Archery, 5th in Mini-DRC, and 6th in Sprint.

 🏆 The highlight for our junior team (Roboparks-LU),  made up of high school students trained in our lab, was securing 1st place in All-Round in the Junior League! They also placed 1st in Weightlifting, 1st in Sprint, 1st in Marathon (with a new event record), and 2nd in Triple Jump. It has been amazing to see their growth and performance on the international stage.

🏆 In addition to the competition, Austin Barrett and Nicolas Pottier presented their research projects at the FIRA World Summit. Austin presented Developing a User-Friendly Teleoperation Interface for Humanoid Robots, and Nicolas presented A Modular Object Detection System for Humanoid Robots Using YOLO, which won the Best Paper Award, congrats to both of them!

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Our Snobots won BIG this weekend at the FIRA Canada 2025 HuroCup, taking home the gold medals in both the small-size and large-size humanoid categories! The robotics team worked tirelessly to the very last minute, showing determination and resilience that carried them to the top spot in both leagues.

Congratulations to our competitors:

🏆 Hurocup Pro League (Kid-size): Nicolas Pottier (Computer Science), Adam Chebbi (Mechanical Engineering), and Artin Lafrance (Computer Science).

🏆 Hurocup Pro League (Adult-size): Austin Barrett (Computer Science), Brooke Vrbanic (Computer Science), Shade Kaiser (Computer Science), and Stephen Irvine (Computer Science).

These wins are a great testament to their strength as a team, and another step in the right direction on their path toward the Fira RoboWorld Cup this summer in South Korea!

FIRA RoboWorldCup 2024 Success: Our student team, the "Snobots," comprising fourth-year Computer Science students Austin Barrett and Nicolas Pottier, showcased their exceptional skills at the FIRA RoboWorldCup 2024 in Brazil. They earned four gold medals, a silver medal, and secured first place overall in the prestigious HuroCup Adult-Sized Humanoid Competition.