Indian-Origin Students Lead UAE Team to Gold at 2025 FIRST Global Robotics Olympics with Innovative Bio-Preservation System

Nov 21, 2025 11:58 pm CST

A team of Indian-origin students representing the UAE has won gold at the 2025 FIRST Global Challenge, known as the "Olympics of Robotics." Their innovative project 'STASH' offers an electricity-free bio-preservation system for endangered species using sodium alginate hydrogel technology, marking UAE's first top prize in 36 years at this prestigious global competition held in Panama City.