Today, we demo-ed our project prototype to the University of Waterloo at the Mechatronics 2026 Capstone Symposium.

It was a great day. Everything went smoothly, and we were able to set up two parallel demos within our environment: one demo focused on showing the autonomous capabilities of the robot, and a second demo which would allow guests to drive the robot around and interact with the project.

Particularly, we are happy at the reliability of our product, from both the software and hardware fronts. Throughout the four-hour symposium, we were consistently able to run our SLAM demo and stream it to the laptop to display on the screen, and had little to no hiccups in keeping this running. Furthermore, both the hardware platforms for both demos worked consistently with no electrical or mechanical issues, even when guests would sometimes accidentally run the robot into the walls.

Our symposium setup.
Robot in action.
roamr team.