The Hyperion Robotics team from the University of Western Macedonia, supervised by Dr. Minas Dasygenis, achieved an extraordinary 19th rank out of 37 teams globally at the World Robotics Olympiad finals in Doha, Qatar, competing against premier robotics universities worldwide.

The Laboratory organized, in cooperation with Mrs. Atmatzidou and WRO Hellas, the inaugural 1st WRO Regional Robotic Competition in Kozani, hosting dozens of student robotics teams from across Northern Greece.

The laboratory participated with 3 accepted scientific papers authored by undergraduate students under Dr. Dasygenis's supervision at the 7th Panhellenic Electrical & Computer Engineering Student Conference (ECESCON).

Student Nikos Giannopoulos was awarded the 3rd Best Thesis Prize nationally at the iFest 2012 festival for his graduation project conducted under the supervision of Dr. Minas Dasygenis.

Co-organized open educational seminars introducing hundreds of students to rapid Arduino prototyping, embedded cloud IDEs, and open hardware development.