LamarRacing, a student AI and robotics project at the University of Bonn, won an award at the RoboRacer Competition held as part of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2026 in Vienna. In the time trial competition, the Bonn-based LamarRacing team posted the best performance of the entire field and won the time trial classification by a wide margin. For this achievement, the team received the “Best Performance Overall” award. In the subsequent 1-on-1 race format, LamarRacing finished in fourth place.

Two years after it went online, the Marvin supercomputer has become a central research infrastructure at the University of Bonn. The Institute of Computer Science, in particular, has played a key role in this development: At the community event, Prof. Dr. Maren Bennewitz, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gall, and Prof. Dr. Petra Mutzel highlighted the importance of high-performance computing, AI, and data-driven methods for research in Bonn.