In July 2026 the team of the Secondary School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Maribor competed at the RoboCup 2026 world championship in Incheon, South Korea — and came home as world champions.
The team was Tadej Božičko and Mark Ptičar, mentored by Professor Miran Waldhütter. They competed in the RoboCupJunior Rescue Maze league, which brought together the 30 best teams from around the world. RoboCup is the world's largest competition in robotics and artificial intelligence; this year it hosted around 3,000 competitors from 45 countries.
Their biggest success came in the international SuperTeam category, where together with the Japanese team TOKAI they took 1st place in the world. The category demanded close cooperation and fast integration of our systems with an international team — our software and our readiness for the unexpected made the difference.
The title is the result of months of hard work, programming and testing — and proof that a team from Maribor can compete with the best in the world. The Mayor of Maribor also congratulated the team on its success.
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