On 15 November 2021, the Alba Regia Faculty of Engineering Óbuda University and the Howmet-Köfém Mill Products Hungary Ltd announced on a press conference that the faculty received a 3 million HUF grant in 2021 through the Howmet Aerospace Foundation, which was used to develop the robotics center, and the virtual reality and pneumatic laboratory.
Attila Mészáros, the Deputy Mayor of the city of Székesfehérvár, István Katus, the Managing Director of Howmet-Köfém Kft., Csabáné Budavári, the President of the Foundation for the Higher Education of the Faculty of Engineering of Alba Regia, and Prof. Dr. György Györök, the Dean of AMK ÓE were present at the event.
