ISR-UC participates in the 2026 BotOlympics with Robotics Challenge

ISR sponsored the 2026 BotOlympics, a national event dedicated to robotics organized by the Núcleo de Estudantes de Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (NEEEC/AAC) and the Robotics Club of the University of Coimbra.

Consisting of three simultaneous tournaments for students from elementary school through college, the competition took place in a hackathon-style setting over March 19 to 22, during which participants developed ways to achieve the objectives of each of the respective challenges. The "Prova ISR", tournament for basic education students, in which participants used a simple and intuitive robotics kit — the mBot2 — programmed through a block-based language similar to Scratch. The objective was to navigate a track using multiple sensors, while avoiding obstacles along the way, testing both logical reasoning and problem-solving skills.

The event brought together a total of 121 participants and 25 teams, representing several Portuguese institutions, including the University of Coimbra (UC), University of Aveiro (UA), University of Porto (UP), and the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP).