University of Warwick students are poised to take their “rescue robot” to the RoboCup Rescue Championship in Germany next week. The students developed their robot in a team project bringing together Engineering and Computer Science students at the University of Warwick and they will soon be on their way to the 9th RoboCup German Open which will be held in Magdeburg from April 15-18.

The robots are designed to crawl over and through difficult terrain or such as destroyed buildings in search of trapped survivors. The German competition will put the robot through its paces in a simulated disaster environment which requires robots to demonstrate their capabilities in mobility, sensory perception, planning, mapping, and operator interfaces, while searching for simulated victims in difficult environments.

The Queen has formally presented the University of Warwick and WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group) with a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education at a special ceremony and reception at Buckingham Palace on Friday 19th February.

The University of Warwick has won Royal recognition for the work of WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group) with the award of a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education.

The 21 winners of the eighth round of the Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education were announced by the Founder and Chairman of the Royal Anniversary Trust, Robin Gill CVO at a special reception at St James's Palace on the evening of Wednesday 18th November.