Sep 2025     Issue 27
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MAE Students Win the Robot Skills Champion at the 2024-2025 VEX Robotics Competition Asia Open Finals




The CUHK team, comprising three undergraduate Year 3 students from Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering (LAW Yee Shun, NG Tsz Hin and SIN Shing Yu), supervised by Professor KWOK Ka Wai and Mr. YIP Chun Wa, Billy, won the Robot Skills Champion at the 2024-2025 VEX Robotics Competition Asia Open Finals (VEX U), held in Taizhou, China, from 20-23 February 2025.

The VEX Robotics Competition is one of the largest-scale robotics competitions in the world. At the Asia Open Finals, 13 competitive university teams participated in two types of competitions: the Skills Challenge and the Tournament (2 robots vs. 2 robots). The team secured 1st place in the Skills Challenge and was ranked 14th in the World Skills Standings (as of February 2025) for the VEX U Robotics Competition on RobotEvents.com, qualifying them to compete in the VEX Robotics World Championship in May 2025.

The team subsequently represented Hong Kong at the 2025 VEX Robotics World Championship, held in Dallas, Texas, USA in May 2025. Following the event, they were ranked 17th out of 249 teams in the World Skills Standings on RobotEvents.com, as of May 2025.

    

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