Four Engineering Undergraduates to Represent HKU at First Ever Amazon Picking Challenge
by Natalie Lung;
Four Engineering undergraduates are representing HKU in the Amazon Picking Challenge at the annual International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) this week. TecHKU checked in with them before they headed off to Seattle.
A Tour of the HKU M2 Robotics Team Lab
by Vaibhav Bahadur and Donald Lam
M2 is the HKU Student Robotics Team. They represent the university in competitions like the annual Robocon. Their lab is hands down one of the coolest place on campus. If you have never been before, click in for a quick photo tour!
Undergraduates Coding Atlas at a Postgraduate Level in DRC Team HKU
by James Lam
HKU finished 12th with our own Atlas robot in the DARPA Robotics Challenge trials in Miami back in December. Among the team of coders who wrote Atlas’ sweet moves, five were actually HKU undergraduate students.
The Man Behind Hong Kong’s Robotics Revolution
by Sundararaja N. Valiyapan
We interviewed the HKU Dean of Engineering, Professor Norman C. Tien to learn more about the Advanced Robotics Initiative at the university and the future of robotics in Hong Kong.
Maintaining Atlas
by Donald Lam
Prof. Wyatt Newman teams up with TecHKU to explain what happened behind the scenes of Atlas’ blotched media debut back in October.