UBC Engineering Physics students race to save 'pets' with robots

UBC Engineering Physics students race to save 'pets' with robots

August 7, 2025 6:17 pm PST.

For the last two months, 15 teams of UBC engineering physics students have been building automated robots from scratch. Now they are putting their creations to the test in an exercise that shows their ability to save pets from a burning building.

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