Competitions

Where we put what we learn to the test.

2025/2026 Season

Three challenges, one shared passion

This year STAR UMA represented the University of Málaga in some of the most demanding robotics competitions on the national and international scene. These are the challenges we faced.

GDVC
🥈 World Runners-Up

Global Drone Virtual Competition 2026

International competition organised by MathWorks in which students from all over the world develop control and computer-vision algorithms so that fully autonomous drones complete complex routes, adapt to changing weather and perform precision landings.

Our proposal beat the team from India and was only behind an Italian team that took first place, making us world runners-up.

Eurobot Spain
🏆 Spanish Top 10

Eurobot Spain 2026

International autonomous-robotics competition where university teams from across Spain build robots from scratch to overcome a technical challenge that changes every year. It is the national qualifier for the European Eurobot final.

STAR UMA managed to break into the national top 10, showing solid performance against well-established teams from Spain's leading engineering schools.

Sener-CEA's Bot Talent
🔬 Top tier

Sener–CEA's Bot Talent

Robotics contest organised by the Sener Foundation and the Spanish Committee on Automatic Control (CEA), aimed at university teams in their final years of bachelor's or master's studies. Participants must apply their engineering skills to solve highly demanding autonomous-robotics challenges.

Taking part has meant facing a cutting-edge challenge, developing solutions such as our soft gripper and learning from the best university teams in the country.

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Every competition is a brutal, honest exam: it tests what we know, who we are as a team and how far we want to go.

— STAR UMA