RoboJackets

Jacket Racket is back!! Come fight robots with us on March 22nd at the Exhibition Hall! This event is open to the public so even if you don’t register, come by for some great action from BattleBots and RoboWrestling—and for an opportunity to snag some of our new merch (coming soon)! DM us or reach out via the contacts on the poster for any inquiries about the event 🐝⚙️

We hit the jackpot with our 2025–2026 leadership team! 🎰 With elections in just under 2 months, here are their main accomplishments so far:

President: Mukilan Karthikeyan — established industrial partnerships, strengthened RJ-SCC relationships, launched brand initiatives, a web development initiative, streamlined sponsorship, built a long-term development plan for the organization, and supported local VEX through volunteering and mentoring.

Vice President: Zane Pressley — supported Ri3D and high school competition goals, and standardized processes to launch new campus competitions this spring for BattleBots, RoboCup, RoboWrestling.

Treasurer: Brooklyn Heath — built infrastructure for long-term financial stability and led sponsorship fundraising efforts, raising tens of thousands this fall semester.

PR Chair: Angelina Rodriguez — built infrastructure for increased social media and large-scale livestreams, expanded merchandise, supported sponsorship fulfillment, and increased recruitment of women within the Georgia Tech community.

Shop Manager: Aaron Qu — improved shop quality, organization, and space, with efforts including a major renovation and organized cleanings.

Secretary: Zaid Hashmi — standardized room reservations, reduced conflicts, improved staff communication, and created a future onboarding guide to ensure ease of leadership transitions.

Outreach Chair: Ian Lamont — brought Ri3D under the RoboJackets umbrella and helped facilitate the success of the 72-hour event, and expanded our outreach impact across Georgia robotics.

This is just our elected team! Check our highlights to see the full leadership behind our 450+ members 🐝⚙️

We’d like to thank our sponsor, Kenesto, for their continued support of RoboNav! Our team relies on Kenesto’s cloud-based PDM platform to manage and collaborate on our SolidWorks designs for our Mars-style rover and drone. Since adopting Kenesto, we’ve streamlined version control, improved design transparency, and accelerated iteration across our mechanical subsystems. Their integration has been vital in helping us qualify for the University Rover Challenge finals and continue pushing the boundaries of student-driven space robotics.

Learn more about Kenesto’s powerful design management tools at www.kenesto.com

We’ve got our in-house competition, Jacket Racket, this weekend! Come by the Student Center on Saturday, 10/25, to see BattleBots and RoboSumo fights! 🐝🤖💥

General Interest Meetings for RoboJackets 2025-2026 are this week! Swipe to learn a bit more about our five build teams, and we hope to see you on Thursday or Friday!! 🤖🐝

From May 28–31, 2025, our RoboNav team proudly represented Georgia Tech at the University Rover Challenge (URC) Finals, hosted by The Mars Society at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) near Hanksville, Utah. URC is the world’s premier robotics competition for college students, challenging teams to design and build the next generation of Mars-style rovers and drones for remote operation—preparing them to assist astronauts in the field and contribute to future missions like Artemis and beyond.

After a year of hard work, RoboNav was selected as one of 38 finalist teams from a record-breaking 114 applicants across 15 countries, following a competitive System Acceptance Review. Sixteen of our team members traveled to the Utah desert to put our rover to the test in four demanding missions.

We are incredibly proud of the hard work, innovation, and teamwork that brought us to the URC finals. Thank you to all of our dedicated team members and to our generous sponsors who helped make this season possible.

We had a blast and are already hard at work designing our next rover for the 2026 competition. Stay tuned and Go Jackets!

We accept spring members! If you’re interested in joining RoboJackets, check out our website robojackets.org and email [email protected] for more information! 🐝🐝🐝

This funding from the Georgia Tech Student Foundation is made possible with the amazing support of students who made gifts through Roll Call. 100% of student gifts go directly towards the GTSF Endowment which is used to fund student organizations like RoboJackets. Every dollar counts. Give today at http://gtalumni.org/rollcall

We’d like to thank an amazing sponsor of ours, Kenesto ! Our RoboNav team uses Kenesto, a cloud-based file management system, to manage the CAD and other related files to their main rover. It was an immense help and allowed them to compete this past summer. With Kenesto, they were able to qualify for the international URC competition! It wouldn’t have been possible without Kenesto, and we’re grateful for our continued partnership. If you’re interested in learning more about Kenesto, please visit https://www.kenesto.com/ to get more information!

Now that we’ve got our new members for this year, it’s time to meet our Core Officer — F1 style 🏎️🏎️

Michael McCabe - President 👑
Rahul Gudapati - Vice President 🔑
Brooklyn Heath - Treasurer 💵
Estella Tu - Secretary 📂
Alejandro Ojeda - Shop Manager 🛠️
Angelina Rodriguez - PR Chair 📸

Our organization wouldn’t be able to run without these officers and everyone else on core. Our officers, appointed officials, and project managers are the backbone of RoboJackets, handling all the logistics, finances, communications, and more that come with running an engineering organization of our scale!

This past Saturday, BattleBots and RoboWrestling both held in-house competitions for robots that have been worked on this past year!

BattleBots held a single elimination tournament with eight of their 3lb robots, and RoboWrestling held a double elimination tournament with eight of their 500 g robots.

Congratulations to John F. Kennedi and Franki for winning the BattleBots and RoboWrestling tournaments, and good work to all of the teams who competed and worked so hard this year!