Material

To take part in a competition in the RoboMission category, you need a lot of material:

Since the 2025 season, the free choice of technology has been approved. Until 2024, only LEGO brand sets were allowed to be used, but sets from other manufacturers are now also permitted. You will find the exact specifications of the WRO Association (international governing body) for the 2026 season in the FAQ as soon as we have them. (For reference , here are the details for 2025, we do not expect any major changes). Lego robots (SPIKE Prime, Mindstorms EV3 or Inventor, and NXT) are still permitted.

LEGO SPIKE Prime sets can be rented from our webshop .

Important: According to the general rules, a team may only bring one robot chassis to the competitions. A chassis is defined as a construction consisting of the controller / hub / "brick", motors and sensors. The chassis may be modified during the competition and you may have spare parts with you, but a spare controller must remain with the coach and may only be replaced in the presence of a referee.

• One computer or a tablet with the software required for programming. If a device issued by the school is used for this purpose, permission may need to be requested before the app can be installed; sometimes installation or approval by the school's IT officer is also required.

When registering for the competition, each team receives a mat; additional mats can be ordered in our store for a fee.

After the end of the season, the used mats will be available to buy as second-hand material; we will then link to them in our store.

For the competitions, objects must be built from Lego bricks (or compatible building blocks), which must then be transported by the robot or sorted by color. There are special Lego sets for this.

From the 2026 season, there will be a new set from the company KKITC. Teams registering for the competition for the first time will receive this set free of charge.

The two previous sets are also still permitted in the 2026 season; only building blocks that are also available in the old sets will be used. Teams that took part in 2025 or earlier will therefore not receive the new set this time.

The two old Lego sets for game field objects are still permitted in 2026 and will therefore not be replaced this season!

In WRO competitions, the mat is placed on a wooden table with a 5 cm high railing. It makes sense to use such a table during preparation. Here are the assembly instructions.

There are two versions of the table: one with a continuous top and one that folds up. If there is no space to store a table outside of training times, there is also the option of making a railing from 4 loosely screwed wooden slats, which can be screwed together and unscrewed with just a few handles. The dimensions correspond to those of the full-length table.