News - Northern region - Control and Automation Engineering

MetaMate: high school students put their mathematical knowledge to the test in Rivera

The MetaMate mathematics competition, organized by faculty from UTEC and Udelar in Rivera, challenged high school students to solve problems. The event concluded on Friday, Octobe...

Urubots took first place in Canada at the FIRA RoboWorld Cup 2026 global robotics competition.

The UTEC Rivera robotics team developed a system enabling two autonomous vehicles to communicate with each other and navigate a track simulating a city. They earned recognition in...

UTEC Norte graduate develops a smart pets dispenser

From physics teacher to engineer. Horacio De Crezencio, a graduate in Control and Automation Engineering, has a project that allows each animal to be fed in a personalized way usi...

A UTEC project enabled the recovery of a telescope and the reopening of the observatory at the San Javier School in Tacuarembó.

A student of Control and Automation Engineering at UTEC worked on the automation of the historic equipment built in 1979 by the priest and teacher Eduardo Giribaldi.

"Uruguayan style": Urubots achieved a podium finish in an international robotics competition in South Korea.

The Technological University's robotics team, Urubots, once again flew high in international competitions, after taking first place in a technical challenge and third place in the...

UTEC Melo has the first generation of graduates in Information Technology and the first technologist in Water and Sustainable Development.

A student from Fraile Muerto and a young woman from Treinta y Tres are among the five students who received the Advanced University Technician's degree in Information Technology, ...

Robots at the service: one "preventionist" and other mobile robots are the focus of research at UTEC Rivera

A team of professors—adjunct professors, professors, and faculty—conduct research, development, and outreach in the Postgraduate Program in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. M...

How to reuse wool waste, improve safety in the industry and automate irrigation systems, these topics occupy UTEC students

A LoCoBot that is responsible for the safety of workers, wool that becomes fertilizer and an irrigation system based on ultrasound sensors to improve the flow of water in sugar pr...

Pre-registration 2025: study at the public, free, technological and interior University

From January 20 to February 21, UTEC opens the second online pre-registration period at descubri.utec.edu.uy.