We build beautiful products with the latest technologies and frameworks. We are a team of passionate developers and designers that love to build amazing products.
4 clubs, 1 makerspace, 1 network
ZOTBotics’ Network at UCI represents an association of 4 distinct engineering student organizations working hand in hand to promote hands-on project experience and foster creative, self-spirited engineering passions in students of all majors and experience. Operating out of our humble, abandoned trailer building, we specialize in hands-on project experience and personalized guidance for passionate students to find the most accessible route towards engineers of their own making.
Our Foundational Values
Projects
If you’re going to learn how to work a 3D printer or build a remote-controlled combat robot or drone, you best believe ZOTBotics will give you the chance to learn them first-hand! Nothing like honing new skills in engineering by actually playing with the toys instead of watching them on a screen.
Community
We’re 4 clubs conjoined under one roof for an accumulated member count of over 600- who’s there to not meet and connect with? As one big, supporting family, there is never a boring day’s worth of friends, classmates, or teammates to network with.
Fun Engineering
3D printers, combat robots, drones, and electric unicycles out of a student-built robotics workshop- -what more could you ask for out of the college experience? If nothing else, we’re just a group of robotics fanatics fixated on the next great robotics challenge in building wild toys to enjoy with others.
Club Events
General Meetings
ZIT, ACE, and UAVs all share 2 weekly general meetings presenting common topics on introductory robotics concepts like CAD, 3D printing, and basic electronics. Members will hear from veteran roboticists as they break down the best first steps into the hustle both on screen and on hand.
Team Workshops
Recruited project members selected to their respective team and team mentor will see to a weekly meeting at ZOTBotics’ Makerspace where they work exclusively with the vast array of tools and equipment at their disposal for their assigned build challenge.
UAV Flight Sesh
Hosted on a biweekly basis at the green fields of the ARC, UAVs@UCI’s Flight Sesh welcomes hobbyists of the radio-controlled model aerial vehicles to take to the skies and enjoy with fellow pilots. Membership is not required, nor is possession or skill in an RC plane. All are welcome to sightsee or maybe try out one of our community planes or drones!
PEVuci’s Group Rides
How about a shred down Irvine’s extravagant landscapes with several fellow PEV rides with PEVs@UCI’s biweekly group rides! Cruising speed and route rightly adaptable and flexible for all PEVs and all riders’ experience. Bring a friend, helmets on, and get ready to feel the wind in your face down the trails of beautiful Irvine!
PEVuci’s “Intro2Speed” Track Sesh
Who are we to stop at group rides around Irvine when we can settle with race track!? Hosted adjacently biweekly with PEVuci’s group rides, join us at our varying locations of parking garages and lots as we take on PEV-riding one corner at a time around our preset race track! Never ridden a PEV and want your first laps of practice? Got a need for speed to beat the best lap record? PEVuci’s Intro2Speed is your event to go to!