ARC Robotics creates hands-on engineering, business, and educational experiences for university students. The organization hosts an annual robotics competition and a technical conference. Teams from around the world build robots, play a public game, and share the work.
The mission is to close the gap between school and industry by giving students technical and professional practice they can actually use.
The competition was known as RoboMaster North America through 2025. Season One in 2026 was the first year under the ARC name. The game is still projectile combat with a referee system, plus an engineering challenge and a technical conference that runs alongside the matches.
Operations team
Natalie Hahn (she/her)
President
Natalie stepped into leadership during the 2023 competition and has focused on making it more organized, accessible, and fair, and on leaving the next year a sturdier organization than she found.
Shaur Kumar (she/her)
Director of Public Relations, Head of 3v3 Production, Sponsorship Manager
Shaur builds robots, plays guitar, and works as a software engineer at Lila Robotics. The engineering habit started with this competition.
Derek Wang (he/him)
VP of Business Operations
Derek is a mechanical engineer designing electromechanical actuators. He credits the competition with his first job in the field and has stayed on to run the business side.
Xinzhang (Peter) Li (he/him)
Head of 3v3 Competition
Peter has been with ARC since it started as RMNA in 2021, and in this style of robotics since 2018 as an ECE lead at RoboGrinders.
Tudor Fanaru (he/him)
VP of Competition
Tudor works as a software engineer at Microsoft and runs the competition side of operations.
Yunliang (Amy) Zhao (she/her)
Head of Inspection
Amy is a mechanical engineering graduate student at Carnegie Mellon and a researcher at MetaMobility.
Stephen Dena (he/him)
VP of Production
Stephen runs production for the event.
Shikuang Zhao (he/him)
Competition Bidding Manager
Shikuang runs the process teams use to bid for a future host year.
shikuang.zhou@arc-robotics.org
Zoe Samuels (she/they)
Graphical Asset Manager
Zoe keeps the public identity of the competition consistent.
Michael Owens (he/him)
ARC Technical Innovation Conference Manager
Michael led Triton Robotics at UC San Diego, hosted the 2025 competition in his last year as president, and wrote the first proposal for the technical conference. He is a software engineer at Tesla.