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Welcome to iBotics! San Diego iBotics is a non-profit student-run engineering group that focusing on research based engineering projects, managing all of the business aspects modeled after professional engineering firms. iBotics operates in association with the Fund Management Group of The IVE League Incorporated, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization committed to incorporating student's academic education and career or vocational training into thematic learning units for presentation. iBotics also has strong ties with the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Jacob’s School of Engineering. What's New 11/4/2009: New Sponsor Thanks to CRCA for their assistance in 3D printing! 7/23/2009: New Picture Gallery Check out our new picture gallery working and playing with the Stingray in preparation for the 2009 competition. 7/12/2009: Web Site Update Many updates around this site. Check out updated Stingray design for 2009. 4/29/2009: New Video Check out our new video demonstrating the Stingray tracking an orange buoy. The Stingray Project For the past three years, the focus of the iBotics team has been to design and build an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to compete in AUVSI & ONR’s Annual International AUV Competition. The requirements of the competition are to develop a vehicle capable of completing a number of realistic underwater challenges that focus on navigation, vision, sonar and environment manipulation. The approach that the iBotics team takes to this competition is not only to compete as a student organization, but also to shape the future of underwater vehicles by working to create the next generation of AUV technology. The result of these efforts is the Stingray: a compact, light-weight AUV that sacrifices neither functionality nor style. More information about the competition is available on the AUVSI website. See the Stingray design section to learn more about the design and features of the Stingray.