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UBC students race against time to save the Avengers

Sixteen teams of engineering physics students worked through the summer to build fully autonomous robots from scratch. On August 8, each robot will be assigned either to the forces of evil (Thanos’ ...
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UBC students race against time to save pets from burning building

Fifteen teams of engineering physics students have worked through the summer to build fully autonomous robots from scratch. On August 7, these robots will race against the clock to save as many pets ...
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UBC engineering students create automated life-saving robots in competition

University of British Columbia's engineering physics students raced against time in a heated competition last week. They had to create robots that could identify plush toys through an obstacle course ...
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UBC Space Elevator Team Unveils Solar-powered Prototype for $500,000 NASA Competition

UBC Snowstar, a team of UBC engineering physics students, unveiled their latest prototype of their solar-powered space elevator robot, set to compete in the 2007 NASA Beam Power Challenge. Held in the ...
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For UBC physics engineer, the sky's the limit in his souped-up BMW

For Andre Marziali, the gig is up. Up Knox Mountain in Kelowna in less than two minutes in fact, hitting corners at 200 km/h before braking hard and accelerating again in the Knox Mountain Hillclimb, ...