Undergraduate students from Kookmin University swept the top three prizes at the 2026 SEA:ME Hackathon, an AI-powered autonomous driving competition held at Park Habio in Seoul’s Songpa District, July 14-16. The university said Friday that its SMT team took the grand prize by demonstrating stable driving performance and highly sophisticated algorithms. Two other teams, SKY and KUUVe, won the top excellence award and the gold prize, respectively. Teams from Keimyung University, Chungbuk National University and Sun Moon University earned silver, bronze, technical and design awards. Now in its fourth year, the SEA:ME Hackathon is jointly organized by Kookmin University’s Convergence and Open Sharing System (COSS) Future Mobility Project Group and Hanyang University’s ERICA Intelligent Robotics Project Group, with support from the Volkswagen Group WE: Foundation. This year’s competition brought together 117 undergraduate students from 27 teams representing seven universities across the country. Telechips participated as the technical partner, providing scale cars built on its TOPST single-board computer platform. Participants were also given access to Claude Code Max 20x, a generative AI coding assistant.