The A.R.E.S. team was selected as a finalist in the challenge. From left: Saverio Marsicano, Evelyn Zhinin Tacuri, Gunn Aggarwal, Ivy Manglicmot, Yuri Kent Calumpit, Ray Khan, Anthony Vazquez Rivas (not pictured)
Gunn Aggarwal of Yonkers is among 11 students from New York Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering and Computing Sciences who participated in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s College Challenge: Vehicular Tunnel Catwalk Robotics. The challenge tasked students with designing and prototyping a robotic machine to move on the catwalks of the Lincoln Tunnel.
The two teams developed the Tunnel Emergency Response and Reconnaissance Automation (TERRA) and the Autonomous Response and Emergency Sentinel (A.R.E.S.), and team A.R.E.S. was selected to compete in the final round in May.
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