I have worked on specific projects inside RioBotz. You can learn more at: Battlebots, Touro and Sumo robots.
Riobotz is the robotics team of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Our main focus is developing and competing with combat robots – the competitions are usually based in the US or in Brazil. We also develop other robots such as line followers, biped, sumo, solar-energy based and self-balanced robots.
This picture above taken on my first competition as a Captain. Among our trophies, we got first and third places on the main category (middleweight).
I joined them in August of 2012 (my freshman year), and in 2013 I became the Coordinator of Mechanics, after quickly learning more about the robots and activities. A while after that, I earned more responsibilities when I became Captain of the team in 2014. Being Captain is an extremely important and essential role in the team. Among my responsabilities were to ensure a cooperative environment among team members, good planning to respect competitions deadlines, communication between the team and Marco Meggiolaro (the professor responsible for the team) and budget allocation. I was responsible for coordinating more than 25 students working on 15 different projects.
During the second semester of 2015, I went to the University of Wisconsin Madison as an exchange student, and because of that I temporarily left the team. Once I came back, I was called to be a part of a selected team within Riobotz to take part in the most important competition we had ever been to: BATTLEBOTS. Since then, I still attend Riobotz’s lab and help with counseling and project evaluations.
I have gone to many competitions with RioBotz. Here is a list of them, and the trophies the team won in each one:
Member
Summer Challenge 2012 (Brazil)
- First Place – Autonomous sumo robot [3kg]
- Second and Third Place – RC sumo robot [3kg]
- Third place – Middleweight combat robots
- Second place – Lightweight combat robots
- Third place – Hobbyweight combat robots
- Third place – Beetleweight combat robots
- Second place – Robots Hockey
Robogames 2013 (US – San Mateo, CA)
- First place – Solar BEAM Speeder
- First place – Solar BEAM Photovore
- First Place – RC Sumo robot [3kg]
- First place – Humanoid Freestyle / Kit
- First place – Humanoid Sumo
- First Place – Middleweight combat robots
- Second place – Beetleweight combat robots
Mechanics Coordinator
Winter Challenge 2013 (Brazil)
- First place – Beetleweight combat robots
- Second Place – Middleweight combat robots
- Second place – Lightweight combat robots
URC Campus Party 2014 (Brazil)
- Third and Fourth places – Middleweight combat robots
STEM Tech Olympiad 2014 (US – Miami, FL)
- Best in Show – Heavyweight combat robots
- First Place – Heavyweight combat robots
- Second Place – Fairyweight combat robots
- Third place – Middleweight combat robots
Captain
Winter Challenge 2014 (Brazil)
- First and Third places – Middleweight combat robots
- First place – Beetleweight combat robots
- Third place – Hobbyweight combat robots
- Second Place – Autonomous sumo robot [1kg]
- Third Place – RC Sumo robot [3kg]
URC Campus Party 2015 (Brazil)
- Second place – Middleweight combat robots
Robogames 2015 (US – San Mateo, CA)
- First Place – Heavyweight combat robots
- First place – Middleweight combat robots
- First place – Solar BEAM Photovore
- Second place – Solar BEAM Speeder
- Third place – Humanoid Sumo
- Third place – Humanoid Sace
Member
Winter Challenge 2015 (Went as event staff member)
BATTLEBOTS season 2
- Most Destructive Robot
