We are proud to share that Hafiq’s research project, “Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)-based Crowd Navigation for Mobile Robots,” was selected as the featured showcase project for the UBD booth at the Majlis Sambutan Hari Raya Aidilfitri 1447H/2026M, organized by Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah at the International Convention Centre (ICC). It was a great honour […]
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We attended the Expand Space 2025 held at Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore from 26-28 November. Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) was represented by two teams in the International Space Challenge 2025. We are pleased to share that Raziq’s team (led by Jayden) received the Merit Award in the Advanced Category for
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Despite a few hiccups, we successfully delivered two sessions of the Robotic Programming Workshop during the UBD STEAM Festival 2025, held on 12th and 13th June. A total of 68 participants completed the workshop: 24 on 12 June and 44 on 13 June. Raziq, Azryl and other members of Robolab conducted the workshop. The workshop
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Robolab will conduct a robotics workshop in conjunction with the UBD STEAM Festival 2025. Workshop title: A Taste of Robot Programming Event: UBD STEAM Festival 2025 Venue: Chancellor Hall, Universiti Brunei Darussalam Date, Time: 12 June 2025, Thursday, 2-4pm and 13 June 2025, Friday, 2:30-4:30pm (they are duplicate sessions; each participant should only attend one
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Application for admission in January 2024 to the graduate degrees in UBD is open. Application will close on 31 July 2023. More information at https://ubd.edu.bn/admission/graduate/.
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Universiti Brunei Darussalam has opened the application to their Postdoctoral Fellow Scheme. Here’s the announcement article. We are delighted to announce an open call for postdoctoral applications at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. As a leading research University, we are seeking highly qualified researchers who are dedicated to making a significant impact in their chosen field. In
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UBD hosted the International Workshop on Biodiversity and Bioinspiration from 9-13 Jan. The Faculty of Science (FOS), the Faculty of Integrated Technologies (FIT), the School of Digital Science (SDS) and the Institute for Biodiversity and Environmental Research (IBER) in collaboration with Virginia Tech (VT) co-organised the workshop. The participants visited the UBD-VT International Lab located
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The School of Digital Science has acquired a Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm. This added opportunities for us to experiment with manipulation tasks in robotic. The video below is our first project with the NED. This is a lab project by three third year students in the Bachelor of Digital Science: Firdaus, Luqman and Farah.
Teleop and digital twin of Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm Read More »
It had been a few years we couldn’t have physical lab meetings.
We have started with our physical lab meetings Read More »
We are working on the Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm that the School of Digital Science has recently acquired. The RPi firmware that came with the NED is an older version and is not compatible with the latest version of Niryo Studio, 4.1.0. So, we upgraded the firmware to 4.1.0. Ref: https://niryo.com/docs/niryo-one/update-your-robot/update-raspberry-pi-image/ Download: https://niryo.com/download/
Upgraded the Raspberry Pi 4 firmware of Niryo NED 6-DoF robotic arm Read More »