OKOŃ is an automated robotic submarine designed by the Robotics Student Research Group (Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering). The aim of the project is to carry out underwater research and implement autonomy in underwater vehicles.

e-MaksPower is a fully functional sports racing car for a disabled person with reduced mobility. The target user of this project is Maks, a boy who can only move his wrist. e-MaksPower is a result of collaboration between students of four student research groups of the Warsaw University of Technology: ADek Student Research Group (Faculty of Electrical Engineering); Robotics Student Research Group and Vehicle Aerodynamics Student Research Group (both of the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering); and SmartCity Inter-Faculty Student Research Group (Faculty of Civil Engineering) and a student of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.

KOKOS is an initiative sponsored by the Independent Students’ Association (NZS) and open to students of Poland’s top engineering universities. The idea is simple: to pick and reward the best talent among student designers and to confront their output with the demanding world of business and to support commercialization of projects and finding investors.

Entries in the following categories have been accepted this year: Railway, Vehicle, Life Upgrade, Smart Robots and Joker.

Other winning projects beside those from the Warsaw University of Technology were: remote luggage alarm by students of the SKORP Practical Robotics Student Research Group of the Gdansk University of Technology and the Art Academy of Szczecin (Railway); Lodz Solar Team by designers of the Automotive Student Research Group of the Łódź University of Technology (Vehicle); and a scissors-type retractable footbridge by students of the “Aksjator” Structural Engineering Student Research Group of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow (Joker).  

A total of seven projects from our University made it to this year’s finals.