Historic Success in Europe: Double First Place from YTU Students
At Shift Appens, the prestigious technology competition known as "Europe's Technofest", Yildiz Technical University students and Deptron founders made Turkey proud by winning two major awards with the AI-supported autonomous systems they developed.
Yildiz Technical University (YTU) students Meryem Koc and her friends attracted the attention of the technology world with the project they developed at the Shift Appens hackathon, one of Europe's most important technology meetings held in Portugal.
Left Their Rivals Behind
In the event where talented engineers and software developers from all over the world competed, the Deptron Robotics team won the appreciation of the jury with the autonomous navigation and artificial intelligence solutions they developed. At the end of the challenging 48-hour marathon, our team reached the top in both the technical jury evaluation and the participant voting.
- Meryem Koc, Deptron Robotics Co-Founder
Awards Won
As a result of the competition, our team achieved the title of "Double First Place" by receiving awards in two different categories:
- Best Autonomous Solution: First place in the technical category with developed SLAM algorithms and real-time data processing capability.
- Public Favorite: First place won by the votes of the participants with presentation performance and applicability of the project.
Future Goals
This success constitutes one of the first steps of Deptron Robotics' vision of opening up to the global market. Following the finalist success at Teknofest, this victory in the European arena proves the competitive power of domestic technology. The team aims to make the autonomous warehouse robots they developed a standard in the global market by 2030.
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