About
ABU ROBOCON
ABU Robocon, organized annually by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, is an international robotics competition that challenges university students to design and build innovative robots based on a specific theme. Each year, the competition highlights a different cultural or technological aspect, inspiring teams from across the Asia-Pacific region to create robots that perform complex tasks within set rules. The event fosters creativity, technical skills, and teamwork, while promoting cultural exchange and engineering excellence among young engineers.
National DD ROBOCON EVENT
To select the best team from India, a National Robocon event is organized by Doordarshan and hosted annually by IIT-Delhi. More than 75 colleges, including IITs, NITs, and various universities, participate in this competition. The winning team advances to represent India in the international ABU Robocon event.

Robocon 2024
Harvest Day

Robocon 2023
Casting Flowers Over
Angkor Wat

Robocon 2022
Logari
This them was Inspired
by the traditional
Indian game of Lagori,
also known as Seven Stones1.

Robocon 2021
Throwing arrow
Teams designed
robots to throw arrows
into pots, reflecting traditional
archery practices2.

Robocon 2020
Robo Rugby
The theme was based on
the sport of rugby, with robots
playing a version of the game3.

Robocon 2019
Great Urtuu :
Sharing the Knowledge
This theme was inspired by
the traditional Mongolian
postal system called “Urtuu,”
which was used to
relay messages and knowledge
across vast distances

Robocon 2018
Nim con
Based on the Vietnamese
folk game of throwing a
ball through a ring.

Robocon 2017
The Landing Disc
Teams created robots to
throw discs onto poles,
inspired by traditional
Japanese games

Robocon 2016
Chai-Yo:
Clean Energy
Recharging the World
