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Centre Of Robotics Excellence

Name: Centre Of Robotics Excellence
Address: 59 Jalan Pemimpin, #04/01, Singapore, 577218, SG
Telephone: +6587489674

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In the supersaturated cauldron of pay-to-win Robotics “education” centres, CORE rises above, because we are not afraid of losing; we are afraid that our children do not learn, that they walk away with a false sense of achievement. Our trainers are decorated roboticists at the national and international level at the most technically demanding competitions, yet we do not rest on our laurels. We are

constantly going into the robotics industry, working on the hardest problems of the time, and studying research fresh off the press before distilling all this knowledge down to a level comprehensible even to the beginner. The execution of our methodology is highly demanding, requiring the most dedicated and knowledgeable trainers, yet it is only with this rigour that we have developed engineers, programmers, and roboticists sought after by the top universities in the world.

01/06/2026

CORE HEART BUTTIES is a team of 2 secondary 1 girls (13yo)

They took part in the RCJ Rescue Line U19 Entry category in Singapore, coming in 4th

Disappointed by the result, they decided to give RoboCup Asia Pacific Tianjin Invitational a shot even though they would have to re-design their robot and code in a short 1+ months to move up to the RCAP category (intermediate in SG)

Seeing that they were crestfallen and given the short timeframe, I asked them if they would like to simply use their old EV3 robot (RoboCup SG Open U12 3rd place, RCAP Finals Qingdao U12 3rd, Best Learning Journal) and rework the code for an easier path to a result

They refused, wanting instead to prioritize learning

They chose to gut their EV3 robot, switching out the EV3 for an EVN and rebuilt some bits including 3D modelling some custom parts with for their sensors and gear train

Working overtime on the robot on their own over the few weekends we had, the kids have put in an admirable performance, coming in 2nd

More importantly, I'm glad that they chose not to take the easier way out

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There is a Pareto front of winning and learning

Maximizing learning necessarily trades off against winning

However, the closer one moves to learning, the quicker one's Pareto front expands

I believe that the role of the coach is to:
1. Nudge students towards that Pareto front
2. Help students (and their parents) understand this joint optimization problem and be part of the decision making process

It is also certainly not to get kids to rote learn one particular solution (they have enough of that at school) which contributes next to nothing to their development as problem solvers

I'm really happy to have a group of enlightened families here at CORE that understand and believe in what I do

It's hard, lonely work standing up against the industry when winning, as the most visible signal, is used as a proxy variable for learning but it's all worth it seeing these kids grow up

29/05/2026

CFS (C): *wins RoboCup SG Open 24 U12 in Apr and WRO SG 24 in Sept*

Me: u r smollest in U19 next yr gd luck

25 CFS (C): *is smol, rebuilds robot with design in n code in .cc with EVN (learnt during WRO n WRO international)*

CFS (C): odearieme robot cg is horrible, robot cannot follow d line

Me: lolol no time to rebuild gd luck

CFS (C): kp go brrrrr *sets kp to 6587489674, gets 7th place*

Me: not bad for first try, gd luck 4 next year

26 CFS: *is c, ex core qwerty kid, new kid, fixes cg, kp=1*

Me: no need 4 gd luck then

CORE FRIED SENSOR
> average age RoboCup Singapore Open U19 1st

Me: *will never go 2 intl again coz kids r always winning 2 young n cbb 2 win again D:*

23/05/2026

CORE SPONGEBOB
> 2025 RCJ Rescue Line U19 Champs at SG Open after random LEGO sensor failure in 2024 drops them off podium
> Starts computer vision journey with redesigned robot at RCAP 2025
> Redesigns robot to ditch LEGO motors at SG Open 26, finishes design on competition Day 1
> Perfect runs on practice field in competition
> Camera refuses to work on line in real field
> Most number of victims rescued
> RoboCup Singapore Open U19 Judge's Award (Evacuation Zone)

CORE MIKE
> 2025 SG Open 4th
> 2025 WRO 5th
> 2025 RCAP 4th
> RoboCup Singapore Open U19 5th
> Consistency or something

CORE INSERT TEAM NAME
> 2025 RCJ Rescue Line U19 2nd at SG Open with EV3 robot
> Realize they're too old for LEGO (2 sec 1s, 2 sec 2s)
> 2025 WRO 4th with EVN + 3D design with
> Tries to redesign EV3 robot in 1 month for RCAP, took as long as expected
> Tries to shift from EV3 to EVN in 3 months for SG Open, took as long as expected
> RoboCup Singapore Open U19 9th
> Coming back to a podium near you

15/05/2026

CORE ANTIMATTER
> 2025: learns EV3 MicroPython
> 2026: learns
> RoboCup Singapore Open U12 3rd
> 2027: U19 chapter loading

09/05/2026

bp robotics: *has some crusty, barely working ev3s, one printed mat from pandemic online comp, 50 CCA hours/year*

helloworld: *scholar team, joins robotics for some weeks, almost podium in 2025 but ultrasonic sensor randomly fails on last run*

helloworld: DDD:

bp robotics: *borrows resources from other dept to buy 3d printer, even crustier ev3s, increasingly crumpled mat, same CCA hours*

me: owellz go 2 intermediate 2 win?

helloworld: fine

bp robotics: hehehaha what inconvenience should I spawn this year

bp robotics: *makes a bp ev3 fail, helloworld lends them theirs*

helloworld: hello kenneth our threads r too old n loose they keep falling off DDD:

me: luckily I have 479&88392748393 threads n ev3s

helloworld
> 1st bp 1st since 2022
> blessed by lucky CORE inventory bag
> RoboCup Singapore Open U19 Intermediate 1st

helloworld: :DDD

me: time 2 win tianjin???

02/05/2026

borb: *SG Open U19 Entry 2025 2nd*

me: when championship???

borb: *IDE Robotics Secondary Open 2025 2nd*

me: when championship?????

borb: *RCAP U19 Entry 2025 2nd*

me: .___.

CORE BORB:
> 3 sec 2 kids
> 4 podiums in 5 competitions
> RoboCup Singapore Open U19 Intermediate 3rd

me: .______.

(evacuation zone mechanisms got removed at some point)

25/04/2026

CTC (A): mi fren (my ex CORE student who went to cornell) said u r very cool

Me: that is true

Me: *has no choice but to start new team*

CTC (WS): mi neighbour (CORE student who won RoboCup, IDE, and WRO championships with me in one year) said u r very cool

Me: that is true *2

CTC: *makes design mistake on chassis so EVERYTHING needed to be designed around it* but it still works hehehaha

Me: 👍

CTC: we want 2 beat CLC even tho they r older

Me: u should beat everyone, u r alr 13yo

CTC: *gets 2nd* hehehaha we beat CLC

Me: y no beat everyone???

CTC: ok next comp

Stay tuned to find out if they do better than borb (my 13yo team last year that got 3 podiums in one year) 👀👀👀

CORE TINKER CORE
> not siblings
> first 3 months doing robotics
🥈RoboCup Singapore Open U19 Entry 2nd

18/04/2026

CLC: *inspired by younger brother to join Robotics on our trip to RoboCup Asia Pacific in Abu Dhabi last year* dyu have slots for us plsplspls

me: not really but fine

CLC: *learns for 3D printing*

me: y ur robot no move

CLC: *learns .cc with EVN*

me: ok top 3 pls

CLC: *gets top 3*

me: fine not bad for 3 months of robotics, do better next time

CLC: ok RCAP pls

me: 👀👀👀

CORE LOW CORTISOL
> sibling pair
> first 3 months doing robotics
🥉 RoboCup Singapore Open U19 Entry 3rd

23/01/2026

#2016

Our second year as a company and about to head into our first RoboCup Singapore Open.

Spirits were high. In our first competition the year before as coaches for Club Automatica (the robotics club at Raffles Institution Junior College), our kids won the National Junior Robotics Competition (NJRC) Tertiary Category Championship for the first time. They would go on to represent Singapore at the World Robot Olympiad in Doha, Qatar. This felt like a culmination of 6+ years of work.

True to form, our kids put in a dominant performance at RoboCup, winning the RCJ Soccer Open Championship and the RCJ Rescue Line Championship for the first time. We also coached the team from Raffles Girls' School Robotics Club for free. They came in 2nd behind our Automatica kids in their first year at the competition.

We would go on to represent Singapore at RoboCup Leipzig, Germany, where our Rescue Line team would win RCJ Rescue Line Superteam 3rd.

Having started CORE as a product company, our first coaching season was a ridiculous success in terms of results. 3 National Championships, an International award, and 7 other National awards. These kids would go on to Imperial College London, Carnegie Mellon University, ETH Zurich, University of Chicago, UCLA, NUS, NTU, and SUTD.

The year ended on a lower note as we came back empty-handed for NJRC with the JC2 batch graduating.

Outside Competitions, 2016 was also a critical year for CORE. Shen Chen and I invested a lot of our early revenue into building our dream RCJ Soccer build and buying parts we could not afford as students (like a LiDAR). We would lend parts like the CNCed omniwheels to our kids.

One fun thing we did was to build a scaled-up, EV3-based version of Mini Milo, the LEGO WeDo mascot for Duck Learning to showcase, among other builds.

It is crazy to think all that was 10 years ago.

Over the years, and especially in 2025, I've caught up with some of these kids and come to realise how much has changed and how much we've grown. We started out as seniors, becoming mentors in title who have shared years with our kids as school or CCA mates.

2016 was a great time with a different dynamic.
Always growing!

11/12/2025

RoboCup Asia Pacific Abu Dhabi 2025

1/ CORE MIKE placed 4th at RoboCup Singapore Open back in April. Again, they used WRO as a scaffolding event to continue development of their robot which was in dire need of a hardware overhaul. Their SG Open robot was optimised for a low center of gravity after the troubles their RCAP 2023 build had with ramps. However, placing the EVN in the front of the robot greatly limited the space available for their mechanism. In this iteration, the team moved the motors from the center of the robot, instead squeezing it between the front and back wheels on each side of the robot. This was completed by WRO in September. The remaining time was used to adapt the SG Open code to run on this new build. This time, the robot had better success with the ramps and the team was able to come in 4th. Next up: yet another redesign to iron out the last issues.

2/ CORE SPONGEBOB were the champions at SG Open. They'd decided to skip WRO in hopes of redesigning the robot to include a camera and run as much of the code as possible with classical computer vision. Progress looked good, with green squares, red line, and evacuation point detection performing much more robustly (close to, if not perfectly!). However, the team ran into hardware issues throughout the event, dropping them down the rankings. Nonetheless, the team will be looking to double down on their vision based approach, combining classical and learnt algorithms going into 2026.

3/ CORE INSERT TEAM NAME placed 2nd at SG Open. Following the result, the team split into 2, taking part in WRO to develop their competencies in 3D modelling and manufacturing. Armed with this new knowledge, they redesigned their entire robot between WRO and RCAP, finishing the week before the competition. Unfortunately, this meant that they did not have too much time to spend on the code. Coupled with the absence of half the team at the event, the team performed well under their potential. That said, their new skills will carry them forward and the team has already started transitioning their robot from EV3 to EVN.

These results are reflective of 3 teams in transition.
Looking forward to 2026!

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