2018 Mini Robot Rumble
Following the success of last year’s launch of Mini Robot Rumble, this July saw the second main Mini Robot Rumble event, hosted in the Vodafone building at Smales Farm, Takapuna…. Read more »
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2018 New Zealand VEX Robotics National Championship
Every year towards the end of February, the VEX Robotics season in New Zealand wraps up with the National Championship. For the 2017-2018 season “In The Zone”, teams from across… Read more »
2017 Asia Pacific Robotics Championship
New Zealand was fortunate enough to host the 2017 Asia Pacific Robotics Championship. This is a huge event featuring the VEX Robotics Competition (both High School and Middle School), the… Read more »
VEX U World Championships 2017
In April 2017, with the generous support of the University of Auckland and Motion Design, AURA sent six members to Louisville, Kentucky, to compete in the VEX Robotics World Championship…. Read more »
AURA’s 2015 design notebook
We have now released our design notebook for the 2015 season. You can read it here: http://www.aura.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2015AuraNotebook.pdf
AURA returns triumphant from Louisville
AURA won three out of four World Champion titles at the Vex U World Champs – the Programming Skills Challenge, the Robot Skills Challenge, and the Excellence Award. This is… Read more »
AURA’s trip to Worlds in Kentucky
Four members of AURA left New Zealand on April 10 to travel to Kentucky for the Vex U World Champs. The days before the competition were filled with interesting activities… Read more »
AURA’s 2015 Vex U reveal video
This video shows the robots we used at the 2015 Vex U world champs in Kentucky. Music credit: Macklemore, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, and especially Robonauts team 118.
Worlds timetable for spectators in NZ
Like we did last year, AURA has made a timetable that people in NZ can use to make World Champs spectating easier: http://www.aura.org.nz/2015-worlds-viewing-timetable There are 10 New Zealand teams competing… Read more »
AURA’s 2015 educational video contest submission
This is the video that we entered in this year’s RECF educational video competition (the video was not eligible to win the competition because it exceeded the maximum length). We… Read more »