Saudi Arabia // Combat Robotics

KFUPM Vanguard

Built on home soil.

KFUPM // Dhahran

Crew: 5
Robots: 1
Track: Combat Robotics
Founded: 2025
To Dhahran: 0 km

Robot catalog

The machine

TM-U01

In testing

Falcon-27High-torque vertical drum // 27 kgA control-bot/spinner hybrid built around a hardened steel drum and a wedge front for opponent control. Brushless drive with field-oriented control for fast direction changes.

Weapon: Vertical drum
Drive: 4WD brushless
Armour: HARDOX 450
Top speed: 6.2 m/s

The crew

Who's behind the build

Faisal Al-OtaibiTeam lead · Drivetrain
Lena HaddadWeapons systems
Omar SiddiquiArmour & chassis
Maya TanElectronics
Yousef RahimiDriver

Team dossier

The host university's flagship combat squad, drawn from KFUPM's mechanical and electrical engineering programs. Vanguard prototypes in the same labs that built RoboNexus, iterating on armour geometry and weapon spin-up between class blocks.

Their track: Combat Robotics

From the pit // shot list

01Pit build
02Drum spin-up test
03Armour CAD
04Driver practice

Planned coverage. No pit photography exists yet.

One of the crews entered for the RoboNexus World Championship.

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