A student team of the University of Seoul won the Autonomous Robot Manipulation (ARM) Challenge at RoboCup 2026, the world’s largest robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) competition, held at Songdo Convensia in Incheon from July 2-6. The university said Monday that the UOS Robotics team claimed the championship for the third time, following its victories in 2022 and 2023, reaffirming its position as a global leader in autonomous robotic manipulation technologies. The team competed in the challenge under the guidance of Hwang Myun-joong, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Information Engineering. The six-member team comprises four graduate students — Jo Seong-bin, Choi Jung-hyun, Hong Su-hyun and Kang Doo-in — and two undergraduates, Kim Yeon-jae and Lee Yu-min. They belong to the department’s robotics laboratory. Jo, a master’s student and team leader of UOS Robotics, attributed the victory to the team’s collaborative efforts. “We actively applied the outcomes of our ongoing research to the competition tasks,” he said. “After recognizing the target obje
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