Global Engagement
ABU Robocon Contest
Since 2002, ABU Robocon has been a premier stage for students in the region to display their ingenuity and skills in robotics and build lasting friendships after the competition.
Participating teams would build sets of robots and enter the competition. They have to produce designs and create strategies that fulfill the premise of each year’s theme. Champion team in Robocon Hong Kong Contest will represent Hong Kong to compete with other international teams in August every year.
MATE International ROV Competition
The MATE International Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) Competition has been organized by the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Centre (located in California, US), in association with the Marine Technology Society’s ROV Committee, since 2002 to engage students in STEM and expose them to science and technology careers.
The international competition in June will be joined by winning teams in 30 regional contests across the US and around the world. Students have to come up with their own original and innovative ideas to accomplish the tasks in the competition where they get to compete with teams from many different countries.
HKUST Robotics Team has scooped the world championship of this competition in 2017 – the first Asian team who gained this honor since the game began in 2002. The Team won the world championship again in 2019.
Asian Intelligent Robot Contest
The Asian Intelligent Robot Contest (AERC), officially known in Chinese as the 亞洲智慧型機器人大賽 (Asian Intelligent Robot Sports Competition), is Taiwan's longest-running and largest domestic robotics competition. Founded in 1989, it serves as a massive premier platform to promote hands-on engineering, creative thinking, and cross-disciplinary technical integration.