Robot Uprising is Europe's largest hands-on robotics challenge where gaming, puzzles and storytelling are all combined. Robot Uprising has brought together over 500 techies and robotics enthusiasts to program, design and build robots to compete in our epic arenas. The Robot Uprising hackathon has been organized for three consecutive years in 2017 to 2019, after which we've focused on the Micro Invaders competition. We're currently rebooting our activities and planning future activities.

The story of Robot Uprising is set in 2042 and lore has an important role in our narrative. We offer an immersive alternative reality experience to our participants and partners.

Yes, totally free!

Future events to be announced. Stay tuned! Micro Invaders 2024 includes a development period with workshops both online and at locations around the Helsinki capital area. The Final Tournament is hosted by HAMK and takes place at Riihimäki, the future capital of robotics!

Robot Uprising is a volunteer-led community that shares a common love for robots and making cool stuff happen. Our team members come from extremely multidisciplinary backgrounds from both students and alumni from the e.g. University of Helsinki, Aalto University and abroad. We are constantly looking for new team members to join our warm and ambitious team! We build everything with our own hands from robotics hardware and battle arenas to marketing and experience design. If you want to join us, check the About Us -page and fill our sign-up form!
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For Micro Invaders 2024 study credits are available for students of HAMK.

Previously also both University of Helsinki and Aalto University have given study credits for participants of our hackathons. Other students can receive a certificate of participation that they are free to use for independent applying of student credits from their home universities.

Robot Uprising does not provide travel grants or accommodation for the hackathon. If teams wish support finding accommodation discounts, let us know and we’ll see what we can do!

Application period for Micro Invaders 2024 starts in April. You can already pre-register >

This depends on the track you’re applying to. In the Artificial Invaders track you’ll need a team, for the Robot Uprising track having a team is the recommended option but we are happy to find you a team in our upcoming match-making events on August and September 2019! In the Future Visions track we’ll find you a team, no team required.

Depends on the track you’ll apply to! In general, Artificial Invaders is for AI hackers, Robot Uprising for robotics enthusiasts with programming skills and Future Visions for future nerds who would like to focus on concept design.

The competitions and hackathons organized by Robot Uprising are intended for all robotics enthusiasts, whether your role is primarily in development, design, building or just scheming tricks to outsmart the opponents! When applying to compete, you should make sure that someone in your team has basic programming programming experience.

Robot Uprising provides participating teams the necessary robot kits for the Micro Invaders competition! See the competition page for more information!

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Yes! The entire event is also streamed to Twitch and YouTube!

The ideas born and developed throughout the program are entirely owned by the teams themselves.

Robot Uprising ry reserves the right to showcase teams and projects at their events. Photographs and video material will be taken during the competition and Robot Uprising ry reserves the right to publish them in its channels. If you wish not to be shown in the photos and other materials, let us know.