This year’s robot costume competition was a graveyard smash (*they did the mash–they did the monster mash*). Students dressed their robots in festive outfits and submitted their creations to our esteemed panel of judges (including ME Chair Don Siegal, AHG Facilities Manager Zarko Vukovich, and Robotics Engineer Nikunj Parmar).
The winners are:
1st Place – HeRo Lab’s Da Vinci Research Kit as General Grievous
2nd Place – ARTS Lab’s KUKA Arm as a dragon
3rd Place (Tie) – NRG’s Philbart as the Toy Story Babyface & HCRL’s Unitree Go1 as Moo Deng
People’s Choice Award – HeRo Lab’s Da Vinci Research Kit as General Grievous
Undergraduate Winners – ECLAIR’s UFactory lite 6 as The Addams Family Thing







This brings the total scores in the Crystal Cup competition to:
White – 63 points (38 for Robot Halloween)
Purple – 66 points (43 for Robot Halloween)
Blue – 53 points (45 for Robot Halloween)
The teams consist of:
White – HeRo, ReNeu, Robin, RPL, SWARM
Purple – AMRL, ARTS, Center for Autonomy, CLeAR, HCRL, MERGe
Blue – CNBI, LARG, LWR, NRG, SAHM
Teams win points for the Crystal Cup through event attendance and participation, such as winning the costume competition.