The "Kibo Robot Programming Challenge" is an international competition hosted by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA. In this competition, participants solve problems by programming free-flying robots (Astrobee) in a simulation environment, and ultimately aboard the Japanese Experiment Module (Kibo) on the International Space Station (ISS). The competition consists of two rounds: Regional and International. In the regional selection competition of Bangladesh, more than 150 teams registered. This year's event aims to bring together more than 647 young talents from across the country to showcase their skills in the exciting field of robot programming.

In this year's competition, participants had to program an Android app for the Astrobee robot to navigate through obstacles in a zero-gravity environment and utilize object recognition algorithms to help astronauts find objects in 3D space. Team "Cortex Robotics" successfully achieved these tasks by working diligently over a 1.5-month period. Setting up the simulation environment, training machine learning models, developing obstacle avoidance algorithms, and programming the Android app in Java were challenging yet rewarding experiences. In the final run, Cortex Robotics secured 2nd position among the teams getting 232.9 points. The team consisted of five members from RUET Mechatronics Engineering and one member from BUTEX Yarn Engineering.

Team Members:
- Nazib Abrar - RUET MTE 20
- Avik Md Emtiaz Arefin - RUET MTE 20
- Rahgir Arefin Rafi - RUET MTE 21
- Md. Raihanul Haque - RUET MTE 20
- Ariful Islam Riad - RUET MTE 20
- Md Humam Hossain - BUTEX Yarn 20