Awards & Achievements

29 August 2025

At the TEKNOFEST 2025 Unmanned Underwater Systems Competition, our team RACLAB NOVA — Hatice Kübra İlhan (Team Captain), Abdurrahman İnce, Beyza Nur Yağcı, Feyza İnal, Furkan Eranıl, Gizem Ülker, Mevlüt Burak Dağlı, Mustafa Bedir Sarıtosun, Feyza Baltürk, and Ahmet Selim İlhan — won the “Best Team Spirit” award at the events held in TEKNOFEST Mavi Vatan, Istanbul.🎉 (link)

13 August 2025

At TEKNOFEST 2025’s Robotaxi Passenger Autonomous Vehicle Competition, our team RACLAB SIGUN — Burak Özsoy (Team Captain), Bahtiyar Erener Kurt, Hasan Altuğ, Osman Melih Kocaoğlu, Recep Mahmut Gündüz, Şevval Eymen Nergiz, Fatmanur Çınar, and Enes Kurt — won the “Most Original Software” award at the events held in Informatics Valley (Bilişim Vadisi)🎉 (link)

16 May 2025

At the 2025 TEKNO-SEL Technology and Robotics Competition, our team RACLAB FAAL (Şahan Mirza Özdemir, Elif Su İbiş, Seher Tiryaki, Mahmut Sami Güvenç, Furkan Yeşildağ, Efe Metin Atabey, Enes İşcan) won the Second Place Award in the Open Project Category. Congratulations to our team, and we wish them continued success in future innovative projects.🎉 (link)

16 April 2025

Our members Halil İbrahim Köse and Eren Berk Saç received an Honorable Mention with their project “Air Rail Patrol” at the “Ulaşan ve Erişen Türkiye 2053” Inter-University R&D Idea Competition organized by UDHAM under the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of the Republic of Türkiye. We warmly congratulate our teammates for making us proud and wish them continued success in many more innovative projects.🎉 (link)

30 November 2023

During the Türkiye Entrepreneurial Meetings, held under the auspices of the Turkish Presidency, the 10th GİV Entrepreneurship Awards ceremony took place. Our team, RACLAB, proudly received the “University Entrepreneurship Club Award” alongside our advisor, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akif DURDU. 🚀

30 September 2023

Our team members Mevlüt Öner, Ahmet Şahin were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 B (as 2 projects) scholarships.

1 May 2023

Our teams received five awards TEKNOFEST’23. (link)

1 September 2022

Our teams received five awards TEKNOFEST’22. (link)

20 May 2022

Ömer Furkan Gülbaş Bilal Habeş Akçam HÜSEYİN İPEKÇİ, Sümeyye Çubuk, Musa Şen, zuhal hançer, Özcan Koşar, İrfan SAMUR Dilara Kurt, Mustafa Burak Dinç, Metehan Aslanbaş, İsmail Eren AYHAN Ramazan Erdoğmuş, Furkan AGAC Ahmet Bilal Karakuş, Doğukan GÜVEN, Murat CEREN, Halil Açıkgöz, Muhammet Halis Tekin, Mehmet Reha Koçak Ömer Akdoğan Emir Tatlısu, Emirhan Ayık Kağan Kaya were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 A and B (as 12 projects) scholarships.

12–13 May 2022

Our project teams were attended to the KTMOPP 2022. “Autonomous Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” İrfan SAMUR and Dilara Kurt were the Second Place Winner at the category of Defense Industry, Robotics and Space Technologies. “Autonomous Cleaning Robot” Cansel Boynukara, Fırat Bozkaya, Metehan Aslanbaş and Mustafa Ünal were the Second Place Winner at the category of Efficiency and Industrial Applications. “Vehicle Identification System at Intersections” Esin Uysal and Kevser Düzyol were Third Place Winner at the category of Information and Communication Technologies.

18–19 March 2022

Our RACLAB AYBARS team was participated in the competition of the category of “Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Image Processing” at 18’th International METU Robots Days in Ankara. İrfan Samur, Dilara Kurt, Doğukan Güven, Kevser Düzyol, Murat Ceren, Metehan Aslanbaş and Musa Şen were the Third Place Winner at the category of “Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Image Processing” at the competition. Our RACLAB ASPAR team (Cansel Boynukara, Fırat Bozkaya,Metehan Aslanbaş) was Mansion Winner at the category of Innovation at the competition.

8 November 2021

Our team members Furkan Ağaç, Kevser Düzyol and Mahmut Karaaslan were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 A (as 2 projects) scholarships (link)

26 September 2021

Our team (RACLAB Intelligent Traffic Control Team) was The Second Place Winner at “Intelligent Transportation-TEKNOFEST’21” and Our other team (RACLAB Sigun) received “The Most Original Software Award” at “Autonomous Taxi-TEKNOFEST’21” in İstanbul. (link)

3 September 2021

Our team members Furkan Enes Koçak, Ahmet Bilal Karakuş, Kevser Düzyol, Gamze Öztürk and Mahmut Karaaslan were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 B (as 2 projects) scholarships (link)

1 September 2021

Our team members Cansel Boynukara, Fırat Bozkaya, Metehan Aslanbaş were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2242 Project Competition. (link)

2 February 2021

Our team members Cansel Boynukara, Fırat Bozkaya, Metehan Aslanbaş, Hüseyin ÇELİK, Şevval Çelik and Mert Dağadası were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 B (as 3 projects) scholarships. (link)

11 November 2020

Our team member Şevval Çelik was are awarded TUSAS LIFT UP scholarships. (link)

27 September 2020

Our team (RACLAB Intelligent Traffic Control Team) was The Third Place Winner at “Intelligent Transportation-TEKNOFEST” in Gaziantep. (link)

21 August 2020

Our team members İrfan Samur, Yasin Türkmenoğlu, Gökhan Öztürk, Muhammed Nazmi Öz, Çağla Arslantaş, Büşra Özdeş, Ercan Ataner were are awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 A (as 3 projects) scholarships. (link)

24 February 2020

Our RACLAB Tugberk team was participated in the competition of the category of “Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Image Processing” at 17’th International METU Robots Days in Ankara. Mert Dagadasi, Ahmet Furkan Buyukkelek and Sevval Celik were the First Place Winner at the category of “Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Image Processing” at the competition.

22 September 2019

Our team (RACLAB AYBARS) was The First Place Winner at “International UAV TURKEY Competition-TEKNOFEST” in İstanbul. The other RACLAB team was the Third Place Winner at the Disaster Management Category of “the Technology for the Benefit of Humanity Competition-TEKNOFEST”.

17–19 June 2019

We participated in the 23rd International Conference ELECTRONICS 2020 in Palanga, Lithuania.

23–24 May 2019

Our project teams were attended to the KTMOPP 2019. Muhammet Harun Demir, Mehmet Emre Arıtürk, Ahmed Mohamed Alnazeer Ali, Osman Karagulle, Yunus Emre Dursun, Hilal Uymaz and Ece Yalcin had grades as the First Place Winner and Second Place Winner.

24 April 2019

Our autonomous-car team were participated in the mini-autonomous car competition at the Bilkent University.

24 February 2019

Our project teams were participated in the competition of the category of Innovation at 16’th International METU Robots Days in Ankara. Erol Öztürk and Metehan Aslanbaş were Third Place Winner at the category of Innovation at the competition.

18 January 2019

Erol Öztürk, Ece Yalçın, Hilal Uymaz and A.Furkan BÜYÜKKELEK are awarded Tubitak-2209B-scholarships.

12 October 2018

Congratulations!.. Murat Gümüş, who is a member of RAC-LAB, won the first prize in the Machinery Manufacturing and Automotive Category in TÜBİTAK-Primary Areas Project Competition.

23 September 2018

Our teams (S-Air & S-Quad) are Second and Third Place Winners at “International UAV TURKEY Competition-TEKNOFEST” in İstanbul

12 August 2018

Our team (Anka Engineering Team) was attended to “International TÜBİTAK Efficiency Challenge Electric Vehicle” in Kocaeli

13–16 June 2018

We were at the AUVSI SUAS Competition. We were twentieth among the sixty-three teams in the mission category. Congratulations!..

10–11 May 2018

Our project teams were attended to the SUMOPP 2018. Nevzat Bol, Erol Öztürk, Mehmet Duramaz , M.İlker Ekmen and Mehmet Şen had grades as the First Place Winner and Second Place Winner.

3 March 2018

Our project teams were participated in the competition of the category of Innovation at 15’th International METU Robots Days in Ankara. M. İlker Ekmen, Mehmet Şen and M. Ali Baygın were Second Place Winner at the category of Innovation at the competition.

16 July 2017

Congratulations!..Our team (S-Air) is Second Place Winner at “International UAV TURKEY Competition” in Ankara

17–18 May 2017

Our project teams were attended to the SUMOPP 2017.

22 February 2017

7 December 2016

Mehmet Eren Uzbay, Mehmet Orakçı, Yunus Emre Tusun were awarded Tubitak-2209A-scholarships

12 October 2016

Our UAV team (Mehmet Orakçı, Mehmet Şen, M.İlker Ekmen) was participated in “International UAV TURKEY Competition” in Gebze/Turkiye.

12–13 May 2016

Our project teams were attended to the SUMOPP. Batuhan F. Özşen, M. Fatih Aslan and M. Mustafa Kelek had grades as Second Place Winner and Third Place Winner.

24 April 2016

Our project team was participated in the competition of “SAF-RUN 2016” at the Karabuk University. M. Fatih Aslan and M. Mustafa Kelek were Second Place Winner at the category of Free Style at the competition. The video of this project is in Youtube.

3 April 2016

Our project teams were participated in the competition of “Yıldız Savaslari’16” at the Yildiz Technical University. M. Fatih Aslan and M. Mustafa Kelek were Third Place Winner at the category of Free Style at the competition. The video of this project is in Youtube.

6 March 2016

Batuhan F. Ozsen was Third Place Winner at the category of Free Style at 13’th International METU Robots Days in Ankara.

7 July 2015

M.Fatih Aslan, A.Sezer Karadeniz, Doğan Uğurlu were awarded Tubitak-2209A-scholarships