RioBotz (Undergrad)

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

Winter Challenge 2016 (Went as event staff member)

Winter Challenge 2017 (Went as event staff member)

Winter Challenge 2018 (Went as event staff member)