Victory for Irish University Team at Fourth Robothon Grand Challenge
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Peter So from TUM MIRMI, the organizer of the competition, presented the awards on the RIG STAGE at automatica 2025. This year’s robotics challenge brought together international research teams to focus on a new design for electronic task boards—used to evaluate the agility and responsiveness of their robotic platforms. The tasks revolved around the use of a touchscreen, a component commonly replaced during electronic waste disposal and critical to advancing the circular economy. Teams first completed standard tasks before showcasing their robots’ capabilities with their own e-waste application in the Bring-Your-Own-Device Challenge.
Robothon Grand Challenge 2025: The Winning Teams
1st Place: Atlabotics (€8,000)
Atlantic Technological University, Ireland
Team members: Dipshikha Das, Ali Al Abbas, Abdullah Haider Ali, Camillo Murgia
2nd Place: RoboTechX MDX (€6,000)
Middlesex University Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Team members: Judhi Prasetyo, Ziad Burhani, Bittu Scaria, Sydney Idundun
3rd Place: RoboPig (€2,000)
Technische Hochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt (THWS), Germany
Team members: Martin Löser, Chirag Anand Reddy, Bharath Raj, Smitha Somesh Bellavi
The Robothon is one of the four pillars of the munich_i hightech platform and an international highlight of automatica. A jury of experts from industry and research evaluated the teams. Eight teams from Germany, Ireland, India, and the United Arab Emirates participated in the competition.
