Bear Rescue Advanced

The robot has to find a lost bear and bring it back home.

This competition is held in categories “Standard”, where the robots may be built using whichever parts and “Kit”, where the robot has to be built using parts only from a chosen construction kit.
Bear Rescue rules

Free Style

The contest is open to all robotic enthusiasts. Did you make something that even loosely relates to robotics? Then this category is just for you.
Free Style rules

Ketchup House

A pair of robots compete in a warehouse, who will get more ketchup cans at the end of the game. The warehouse is filled by up to 12 cans of ketchup and its floor is marked by a grid of lines to help the robots to locate. Which robot takes more cans to its base line?

This competition is held in categories “Standard”, where the robots may be built using whichever parts and “Kit”, where the robot has to be built using parts only from a chosen construction kit.
Ketchup House rules

Line Follower

The robots should be designed to quickly follow the black line. However, they may meet different obstacles on the track – split and join of the line, objects on the track and line interruptions. Only robots that overcome all obstacles can succeed.

This competition is held in categories “Standard”, where the robots may be built using whichever parts and “Kit”, where the robot has to be built using parts only from a chosen construction kit.
Line Follower rules

Mini Sumo

Each robot is trying to push the opponent out of the ring. The one who stays in the ring for longer, wins.

In 2020, this competition is held only as “Kit” category, where the robot has to be built using parts only from a chosen construction kit.
Mini Sumo rules

Puck Collect

One robot collects blue, its opponent red pucks. They have to bring them to their homes in the playing field corners.

This competition is held in categories “Standard”, where the robots may be built using whichever parts and “Kit”, where the robot has to be built using parts only from a chosen construction kit.
Puck Collect rules

Roadside Assistance

After a crash on the road, the site needs to be cleaned. The place should be properly labelled and cargo has to be loaded onto replacement vehicles. Which of the robots is able to cope better with this tough situation?

This competition is held in categories “Beginner”, where the robots may be remotely controlled and “Advanced”, where the robots are fully autonomous.
Roadside Assistance rules

RoboCarts

Up to 5 robots compete on the racetrack at the same time who will be the first to pass predetermined number of rounds. There is however a lot of corners on the track, which makes it quite difficult.

This competition is held in categories “Standard”, where the robots may be built using whichever parts and “Kit”, where the robot has to be built using parts only from a chosen construction kit.
RoboCarts rules

Toy Cleanup

The robot has to pick toys (cubes) spread at the playing field and store them where they should be.

This competition is held in categories “Beginner”, where the robots may be remotely controlled and “Advanced”, where the robots are fully autonomous.
Toy Cleanup rules

Competition variants

For “Roadside Assistance” and “Toy Cleanup”, categories “Beginner” and “Advanced” are held. in the “Beginner” category, the robot is remotely controlled, either by wire or wireless. In the “Advanced” category, the robot is fully autonomous: people touch it only to start it and then, the robot performs purely autonomously, deciding by itself what to do. It is forbidden to help the robot in its job. In both categories, the robot may be built from whatever needed (of course it must be safe).

For all remaining competitions except MiniSumo, two variants (categories) are held, “Standard” and “Construction Kit”. For the Standard category, the robot may be built from whatever needed. For the “Construction Kit” category, the builders select a general construction kit and build a robot fully using this kit, nothing else. The “Construction kit” category is held for pupils and students up to secondary schools (ISCED 0-3). There may be also older people such as teachers or parents in the team but such people must not participate on the robot development, they are to supervise the team as “non-playing” or “honorary” captains and mainly care about the young team members in terms of safety and well-being. It such teams, it is allowed to participate for the students of the last year of their secondary education even if they have already passed the leaving exams and officially finished their secondary education under the condition they were in a “studying state” earlier this year.
MiniSumo competition is held in 2020 only as “Construction Kit”.

Detailed rules may be found at the rules page.

Demo

This is how some of the competitions looked like in previous years. Most of the rules for 2020 are similar, however do read the rules, there are differences: