KCLMS Volcanix students working on the robot during a build session

Updates

What we have been building, written down as we go.

The Volcanix team in a planning meeting

For Our Sponsors and Mentors

This page exists so you can see what we are doing without us booking a meeting every time something changes. Each update covers what we built, what it cost, who helped, and what we are working on next.

We post after each milestone rather than on a fixed date, so an update always has something real in it. Every post has a permanent link, so we can send you a single month rather than the whole page.

All Updates

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Sep 2026

Where We Are Since the Think Award

Where KCLMS Volcanix has got to since the Think Award: the DECODE robot, the outreach, the money, and what we are working on next.Read the full post →

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There is an RSS feed if you use a reader. If you would rather we just email you when a new update goes up, say so and we will add you to the list we keep by hand.

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Coming Next

After the next milestone

Next

Autonomous consistency

A routine that scores four times in five is worth less than a duller one that scores every time. The next update covers what we changed and whether it worked.

Also

Vision in bad lighting

The Limelight pipeline struggled with the lighting at the qualifier. We are retuning it, and we will write up what actually made the difference.

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