Deployment recap

Battle of the Schools

September 12-13, 2026 · Toronto

WAT.ai and UTMIST put their ML crews against each other for the Maple Cup. School-rivalry framing, but the weekend is a real ML build with compute and robotics hardware on the table.

devkick ran a workshop and joined the panel at the UTMIST × WAT.ai Battle of the Schools.

Photos

Workshop room at the Battle of the Schools: students at tiered desks with laptops facing a presenter at the front.Crowd of students gathering in the Bahen Centre atrium at the University of Toronto for check-in.Selfie in the Bahen Centre atrium with the check-in crowd behind.Selfie with participants in the workshop room.A humanoid robot standing among participants in the atrium.Audience in a lecture hall during the panel.A pair of robot arms placing bread into a toaster on a demo table.Battle of the Schools vote screen: UTMIST UofT versus WAT.ai Waterloo, share of the vote.
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