In 2024, the world met the champions of the first Brazilian edition of RoboCup@Work.
In 2025, Atena Team’s eyes turned to the world to participate in the international edition.

What is RoboCup@Work?

RoboCup@Work is a league of the RoboCup competition that challenges teams to develop smart robotic solutions for industrial environments, promoting worldwide research and development that enables the use of innovative autonomous mobile robots with advanced manipulators for applications in factories, warehouses and more.

Such applications include complex tasks ranging from manufacturing, automation, and parts handling, which are promoted and defined by the competition in a set of tests carried out inside a large arena environment with obstacles as well as platforms, shelves and bins that include objects such as nuts, bolts, drill tips and metal extrusion profiles.

Atena@Work robot at CBR 2024

What we work on.

  • Simulation in RViz that illustrates this aspect of the project.

    Simulations

    What makes us understand our robot.

    We utilize virtual environments to test and validate the robot's performance, simulating real-world scenarios to identify potential issues, and optimizing designs through iterative analysis, ensuring the robot's reliability and effectiveness both before and during physical implementation.

  • PCB that illustrates electronic aspects of the project.

    Electronics

    What powers and connects the robot.

    We are responsible for choosing which electronic components - such as sensors, batteries, motors, drivers and microcontrollers - are the best fit for our projects, making and evaluating the design of circuits, PCBs and cables to integrate our robot.

  • Code that illustrates programming aspects of the project.

    Programming

    What makes the robot think and act.

    We develop the software that dictates the robot's behavior, writing and debugging code to control its actions and implementing algorithms for navigation, localization, mapping, task execution and sensor data processing, ensuring the robot operates efficiently and intelligently.

  • CAD drawing that illustrates mechanical aspects of the project.

    Mechanics

    What structures and moves the robot.

    We apply diverse knowledge of Computer Aided Design (CAD) with softwares such as SOLIDWORKS and Solid Edge to develop and organize parts, test their mechanisms and analyze their structural integrity.

  • 3D printed parts that illustrate material aspects of the project.

    Materials and Manufacturing

    What composes the robot and makes it last.

    With an infinite range of options, we select and evaluate the materials that compose the robot, considering factors such as strength, weight, durability, and cost, and determining the optimal fabrication methods to ensure the robot's structural integrity and longevity.

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Meet our robot.

This is Atena Team’s approach to RoboCup@Work 2025: developed from scratch in 2024, our robot, Atena@Work, includes omnidirectional movement, sensors for navigation, localization and mapping, vision-based object recognition and a SCARA-inspired robotic arm for efficient and easy-to-control manipulation in a modern and smart industrial setting.

Download our TDP for RoboCup@Work 2025.

Meet our team for RoboCup@Work 2025.

  • João Henrique Aléssio

    João Henrique Aléssio

    Director of the Autonomous Mobile Robotics Core

    Electronics / Simulations

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  • Giovanni Santos

    Giovanni Santos

    Deputy director of the Autonomous Mobile Robotics Core

    Programming / Simulations

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  • Pedro Diniz

    Pedro Diniz

    Atena@Work Project Manager

    Mechanics / Materials / Simulations

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  • Beatriz Alves

    Atena@Work Project Member

    Programming / Simulations

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  • Matheus Paiva

    Matheus Paiva

    Atena@Work Project Member

    Electronics / Programming / Simulations

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  • Vinicius Gustierrez

    Vinicius Gustierrez

    Atena@Work Project Member

    Programming / Simulations

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What lies beyond Atena Team?

Atena Team is the international branch of the SEMEAR Group (Solutions in Mechatronics Engineering and Applications in Robotics), a Brazilian student-led robotics group from the São Carlos School of Engineering (EESC) of the University of São Paulo (USP), founded by two mechatronics engineering students in 2010.

As of today, the group consists of more than 130 members, including our coordinating professor Marcelo Becker and students from many fields of engineering and computer science.

The members are subdivided into four separate technical cores, as well as an administrative core, that develop projects ranging from autonomous to controlled and aerial to terrestrial robots. They are:

  • Aerial Robotics Core (NRA): develops and utilizes autonomous and intelligent aeromodels and drones for research, monitoring, competitions and engineering and robotics challenges.

  • Robotics for Outreach Core (NRE): promotes the accessibility of robotics knowledge to society through events, fairs, technical projects and social actions.

  • Controlled Mobile Robotics Core (RMC): researches, builds, and tests remotely controlled terrestrial robots, participating in robot combat and hockey competitions.

  • Autonomous Mobile Robotics Core (RMA): studies and develops autonomous terrestrial robots, proposing intelligent solutions for industry and everyday challenges in competitions.

    If you wish to learn more about the Group’s activities, check this link (originally in Brazilian Portuguese).

The Autonomous Mobile Robotics Core.

The Autonomous Mobile Robots Core (RMA) was the first core to be created since the Group’s foundation.

We are the current champions of the Brazilian edition of RoboCup@Work, held for the first time in the country at the Petrobras Brazilian Robotics Competition 2024 (CBR), and are eager to defend our regional title in 2025. We are also in the process of qualifying for Atena Team’s first time competing in the international RoboCup@Work 2025.

The core has also won several editions of the national IEEE Open competition and has other projects that have participated in many national events such as RoboCore Experience (RCX) and the RSM Challenge.