The Lab started in 2018 in a small office in the department of computer sciences. We started with about five students and a lecturer. We later expanded into 10 students and a few more lecturers that same year. The Vice-Chancellor Prof. Ogundipe graciously gave us a workspace at the central research lab building (CRL) UNILAG. The following were achieved in 2018.

1.      International Competition: Our team represented Nigeria in a robot-soccer competition held in Ethiopia between 29^th June – 5^th July 2018 with our team emerging in 4^th place. This is a yearly event and our team learned a lot. The application of such a competition has certain positive aftermath in education, and this motivated us in organizing the first of its kind ‘UNILAG Robotics & AI competition’ (12th December 2018) as a prelude to an up-scaled, nationwide Robotics & AI competition for tertiary institutions

2.      Robotics Workshop: workshops on robotics were organized by AiRol to prepare the students for the forthcoming competition. The maiden edition was held on 20^th October 2018 at UNILAG. These workshops introduced participants to quick starts on robotics projects, working with microcontrollers and creating software for robotics projects amongst many other related topics. The workshop was attended by undergraduate students of UNILAG.

3.      Robotics Exhibition in Eko Hotel Lagos and Canada- Nigeria Summit Abuja (May 2018 and November 2018)

The team exhibited some of our robots at an innovation program in Eko Hotel and Canada-Nigeria innovation and entrepreneur summit in May and November 2018 respectively.

4.      UNILAG Robotics Competitions: The maiden edition of the UNILAG robotics competition took place on the 12th of December, 2018. The competition was well attended by students, the staff of UNILAG and interest groups from the industry. Registration for the national competition is presently ongoing. 

5.      UNILAG CSR on empowering the grassroots (October 2018 - December 2018)

The program is an initiative of Prof. T. Ogundipe that aims to provide free basic software development training to young girls in secondary schools. It had its maiden in 2018 with the University of Lagos international school. The program trained over fifty (50) students. The training lasted for three (3) months and training sessions were held on Saturdays only within the University Campus premises.