2014 proved another successful year for the HKUST Robotics Team in numerous contests. HKUST Robocon teams scooped the Champion and Best Artistic Design Award, and the First Runner-Up and Best Engineering Award, in the Robocon 2014 Hong Kong Contest. The HKUST Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) team won the championship in the Explorer Class of the 9th Hong Kong/Asia Regional IET/MATE Underwater Robot Challenge. In the 2014 MATE International ROV Competition in Michigan, US, first-year engineering student Dhesant Nakka received the Engineering Evaluation Most Valuable Presenter (“MVP”) Award. The HKUST Smart Car team also received four awards at the 9th National Undergraduate Students "Freescale Cup" Intelligent Car Competition (South China Region) in Wuhan.