What We Do
UNT Robotics is a student-run engineering organization at the University of North Texas with roots going back decades on campus. After a period of dormancy, the club was revived in 2018 and has grown ever since. Our mission is simple: inspire people and teach them the skills to reach their goals in robotics — and everything we do is open to every major and every skill level, from first-time beginners to seasoned builders.
Workshops & Learning
We host hands-on workshops throughout the semester that take members from the fundamentals all the way to advanced builds — electrical circuits, programming microcontrollers, computer-aided design (CAD), image processing, and using Bluetooth to control robots. They’re beginner-friendly and open to all, no experience required.
We also bring industry into the room, hosting talks and demos from companies chosen to reflect the mechanical, biomedical, and computer-science backgrounds of our members:
Competitions
IEEE Region 5 Robotics
Our IEEE Robotics & Automation Society team took first place against eleven other universities for a $1,200 prize — programming a drone to autonomously identify balloons by color with computer vision, fly to them, and pop them in a judge-determined order, entirely pre-programmed with no human input once it launched.
Botathon
Botathon is our annual cross-disciplinary robotics competition, hosted by students with a fresh theme every year. It’s built as an approachable, hands-on introduction to robotics — anyone can enter, learn, and build something real over the course of the event.
IEEE Autonomous Rover
Our collegiate team competes in the IEEE Region 5 Autonomous Rover competition, where we’ve been commended for our mechanical-engineering prowess.
NASA Student Launch
Members have represented UNT on a NASA Student Launch team — designing, building, and flying a high-power rocket as part of NASA’s national engineering challenge.
Recreational Projects
Not every build is a competition. Our recreational projects are for anyone who just wants to make something cool with a team — there’s no time commitment, so people come and go as they like. Anyone can pitch a project; if you can rally a team, we’ll help you build it.
Working With Others
We collaborate across campus and the community:
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Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
Built the dashboard and helped with the wiring harness for their competition racecar.
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Co-hosted a talk featuring Bell (formerly Bell Helicopter).
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Engineering United
Provided volunteers and members for HackUNT, and ran a session on how to win a hackathon.
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Kappa Delta Pi
Partnered with this education honor society on a STEM workshop for future teachers — programming with Scratch, gear ratios with LEGO, and computer design through skits.