San Diego City Robotics is a group of students, professors and industry advisers with the shared goal of designing and building competitive entries for student robotics competitions. Our main focus is currently building an entry for the AUVSI and ONR’s 12th International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition.
San Diego City Robotics’ first year participating in the AUVSI Autonomous Underwater Vehicle competition was a resounding success! We placed 9th out of 27 teams and won the award for Most Improved entry. The 2007 team was a new formation of talent and built a completely different vehicle from the ground up. Our team will remain almost completely intact for the 2008 competition.
Our project is open to all San Diego area students, professors and industry advisers. Last year we formed a club at San Diego City College called San Diego City Robotics Club. Being in the club is NOT a requirement for being involved in the project. Many of us have transferred to CSU or UC schools but still remain involved. Our project offers transfer students attending 2-year schools the opportunity to work on a major engineering project with the same continuity as students who go straight to a 4-year school. Currently about half of our membership have transferred.
Our project is only possible through the generosity of our sponsors. With their help, we were able to place better than MIT, Duke, U of Maryland, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, North Carolina State Univ., U of Colorado at Denver and other top engineering universities at last years competition. In order for us to remain competitive with teams that have budgets as high as $70,000, we are always searching for additional sponsors. If you’d like to find out more about how you or your company can become a sponsor, please visit our “Support Us” page.
