Columbia University Robotics Club

A team of students dedicated to exploring the field of robotics in both competition and exploratory settings.

Calendar

Onboarding

SolidWorks Workshop (Part 1)

September 17 · 8:00 PM

Mudd Building, Room 251

with Combat

Programming Workshop

September 22 · 8:00 PM

Mudd Building, Room 251

with PacBot

Electronics Workshop

September 24 · 9:00 PM

Mudd Building, Makerspace

with AQUAS

SolidWorks Workshop (Part 2)

September 29 · 8:30 PM

Mudd Building, Room 251

with CCBR

Fusion Workshop & 3D Printing

October 6 · 8:00 PM

Mudd Building, Room 251

with RoboSub

Projects

Robosub

A team building an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). Members of this team used to compete in the MATE ROV competition, but have since shifted their focus from remotely operated vehicles to fully autonomous vehicles.

PacBot

PacBot is a small autonomous robot that navigates a physical PacMan maze to collect pellets and avoid ghosts. The team participates in different competitions throughout the year where it competes against other universities.

Roboracer

A 1/10-scale autonomous race car team developing localization, waypoint-based path planning, and custom web testing tools.

Combat Robotics

A competitive robotics team building fighting robots for NHRL in the 3 lb and 12 lb classes, with a new 30 lb robot in development.

AQUAS

A team developing an unmanned surface vehicle to automate the monitoring, sampling, and eventual remediation of harmful algal blooms.

CCBR (ESRA)

An inter-university team building a quadruped robot as the first step toward a biped and, ultimately, an open-source humanoid robot.

About us

Welcome to the Columbia University Robotics Club (CURC), a community open to all Columbia/Barnard students intrigued by robotics, autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and beyond!

Whether you're an undergraduate, graduate student, faculty, or staff member from any major or background, we invite you to join us. Our collaborative environment fosters learning and teamwork in these dynamic and burgeoning fields. No previous experience is required to participate in CURC; we embrace members of all skill levels.

Our overarching goal is to explore and engage in new endeavors within the realm of robotics.

Current E-board

Alice Lin	Co-President
Hudson Aibel	Co-President/Combat Lead
Sarrah Kitchell	Vice President
Nehal Wadhwani	Secretary
Lissia Leite Barbosa	Treasurer/CCBR Co-Lead
Daniel Ye	Business Chair
Otavio Paz Nascimento	Webmaster
Arnia Goode	Event Chair
Giana Castro	Career Chair
Tsenaye Lewis	Social Media Chair
Levis Bawit	RoboSub Co-Lead
Destiny Smalls	RoboSub Co-Lead
Nicholas Assaderaghi	Pacbot Co-Lead
Talon Couture	Pacbot Co-Lead
Siena Hyun-Ju Chae	CCBR Co-Lead
Andrew Chen	Roboracer Lead
Shining Wang	AQUAS Lead

Join CURC

Interested in joining CURC? Great — we’re always looking for new members to join our community.

The best way to get involved is to join our Slack workspace, where we post updates and announcements about our projects and events.

We also recommend joining our mailing list to receive weekly updates about our projects and events.