Robotics tournament: CASE students get top spot at SAUVC

As many as 14 teams from eight countries participated in the event

An engineering team from Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE) beat off competition from eight countries to secure the top spot along with Russia at the Singapore Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge (SAUVC). Arguably the world’s largest underwater robotics challenges, the competition was held on March 12 in Singapore. As many as 14 teams from eight countries including the USA, China, India, Russia, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore participated in the event. Pakistan, which was participating in the event for the first time, shared the top position with Russia and also bagged the ‘Best Social Media Campaign’ award.   The event is hosted by the IEEE Singapore chapter at Singapore Polytechnic. The team from CASE comprised of four students including Haider Iftikhar, Usman Abid, Saad Malik and Mehrosh Fareed and were supervised by three faculty members including Dr Mansoor Shaukat, Adeel Muhammad and Waqasur Rehman from the CASE Robotics Group.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 21^st, 2017.