The WRO® theme for 2025 is The Future of Robots. In 2025 teams will explore the way robotics can help solve global challenges and improve our lives. From robots reshaping our future cities, robots driving the expansion of life across the universe to AI-enabled robots improving all aspects of our life.

WRO 2021

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SEASON THEME

POWER BOTS

Together with over 100,000 children in the world! The World Robot Olympiad is an international educational robotics competition where passionate young learners come together and experience the process of creating robots in an engaging and rewarding environment.

REGULAR CATEGORY

The Regular Category* is a challenge-based competition. The teams have designed, constructed, and programmed a robot that can solve challenges on a field. The robots are all made from LEGO®materials.
The robots are programmed in such a way that they can make their own decisions. Each round the items on the field are randomly placed. The team cannot interfere with the robot during the run. Each age group has its own challenge, related to the season theme PowerBots.

  • Elementary (8-12y): Energy at Home
  • Junior (12-15y): Park and Charge
  • Senior (15-20): Energy Mix


The online competition will take place in two rounds. The first round starts on Thursday with the announcement of a surprise rule. Teams can get extra points if their robot can solve the normal challenge plus the surprise rule. The teams have 24 hours to upload a video of their best attempt.

The second round of the competition is the 2ndDay Challenge. The teams will get a set of completely new challenges. They have 24 hours again to adapt and program their robot to solve these new challenges and upload their video.

*Starting 2022 this category will be called RoboMission