Rana el-Khoury Maroun, from the heights of Batroun to the forefront of robotics

Rana el-Khoury Maroun was not particularly a fan of robots or artificial intelligence (AI) before these fields became her area of study and then her profession. At thirty years old, this researcher from Kour, in the heights above Batroun, has just won in the United States a prestigious first prize in a field long described as futuristic, yet now at the heart of the present.The TartanIMU Challenge 2026, organized by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, brings together designers of robotic solutions. It was held as part of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), organized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ). More than 130 projects competed, according to the list published on the specialized platform Kaggle. Read more Familiarizing a...