Robot building and competition
The robot competition is an engaging workshop-style team game for everyone!
In the robot competition, each team has to build a working remote-controlled robot using a provided kit to then compete against robots built by other teams. The robot workshop features Lego-like building kits. The most important part of each kit is the drive unit with preassembled motors. The event starts with the creation of teams and an introduction to the purpose of robots. The teams will then spend 1–2 hours building the robots and then these robots proceed to compete in a specific task.
Although each team’s starter kit has an equal number of parts, you can be sure that all the machines at the start line will have different looks and configurations! Building is easy and you can do it without any tools – all you have to do is decide with your team which robot will be the right one for the job! No matter if you are a beginner or a full-time programmer, building a robot is for everyone! The heart of the robot, the drive unit, is already preassembled and programmed and you can command it with the remote control. This makes robot-building practicable even if you are not very tech-savvy. You can also just redesign the shape of the robot! Preparing the robots for the competition takes a minimum of one hour.
Those wanting to get more hands-on can add new features, extra motors and assemble different units. Using the screen on the robot, you can change the remote control configuration, add intelligence to the robot or modify functions. If you want, you can also reprogramme the robot to your liking using a simple program with pictures. If you know how, you can also rewrite the entire code manually!
The gripping robot battle takes place in two parts – a warm-up obstacle course before the main races, and additional tasks for the whole team to master control of the robot. The main race is held in a special arena with two robots facing off against each other. The one-minute rounds command everyone’s attention and extremely entertaining!
We can organise the robot building competition in Estonian and English
Group size: 10–50
Duration: 2.5–4 h