List of Robotics Competitions in Singapore 2026

Updated Aug 2026

Here is a list of the major robotics competitions in Singapore throughout the year. Created for parents and students who are interested in the exciting world of competitive robotics! Email us at schools@nullspace.co if you like to add your competition event here, or if there is an update to any of the competition events listed here.

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CompetitionDateOrganiserWebsite
VEX Singapore Nationals Competition (jump)Jan 2027 (VEX VRC)
Feb 2027 (VEX IQ)		VM EducationCompetition Page
FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Singapore (jump)Mar 2027Developing Innovative Youth (DIY)Competition Page
RoboCup Singapore (jump)Apr 2027RoboCup Singapore National CommitteeCompetition Page
Innovation, Design and Engineering (IDE) Series (jump)May 2027Nullspace RoboticsCompetition Page
National Robotics Programming Competition (NRPC) (jump)May 2027Admiralty Secondary SchoolCompetition Page
DSTA-DSO VJC Robotics Challenge (jump)Jul 2027Victoria Junior College and DSO-DSTA Competition Page
National Robotics Competition (NRC) (jump)Jul 2027Science Centre SingaporeCompetition Page
World Robot Olympiad (WRO) – Singapore Nationals (jump)Sep 2026Space FacultyCompetition Page

VEX Singapore Nationals Competition

  • Date: Jan 2026 (VRC)
  • Date: Feb 2026 (VIQC)

VEX Competitions are highly technical and utilizes robots with metal frames to solve challenging missions. Robots often have to collect, lift and objects over a barrier, while trying to clock the fastest timing.

The competition categories for VEX 2026 include:

  • VEX IQ Competition: Full Volume (Ages 9-14)
  • VEX Robotics Competition: Over Under (Ages 11-17)
Competition Website

FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Singapore

  • Event: FIRST LEGO League Challenge (9-16 years old)
  • Date: 26-28 March 2026 @One World International School (Punggol)
  • Event: FIRST LEGO League Explore (6-10 years old)
  • Date: 28 Mar 2026 @ Canadian Intl School (Lakeside)

FIRST LEGO League Singapore is the local event of the global FIRST LEGO League competition. FLL Challenge requires participants to score points by accomplishing various mission tasks on the challenge field. The rules and mission are announced 5 months ahead of the competition, in step with the global competition event. Participants must strategise on how best to complete the most scoring missions within 2.5 minutes. In addition to the mission run, there is also a presentation component based on the competition theme for the year.

Competition Website

Innovation, Design and Engineering (IDE) Series

  • Date: 2 Jul 2026 (Secondary and Tertiary)
  • Date: 3 Jul 2026 (Primary)
  • Venue: UWC South East Asia (East Campus)

IDE Series is a national technology and engineering competition event. The aim of the competition is to challenge students on problem solving across domains such as electronics, programming, and mechanical design. There are several competition events, each event contains an unknown mission or challenge, which will be revealed at the start of the competition. These challenges vary from year to year, but the emphasis on innovativeness, design element and engineering remains at the heart of the competition.

The competition categories for IDE Series 2026 include:

  • IDE Robotics (Surprise Mission)
  • IDE Sprint (Line Tracing)
  • IDE SumoBot
  • IDE Maker
  • IDE VEX
  • IDE Code Builder (Scratch Programming)
  • IDE Code Hacker (Python Programming)
Competition Website

National Robotics Programming Competition (NRPC)

  • Dates: 4 March 2026 (Registration Deadline), 8 May 2026 (Online submission)
  • Competition Date: 28 May 2026 (Surprise Missions)
  • Venue: Admiralty Primary School, Nanyang Polytechnic
  • Participation: Only open to Primary & Secondary Schools

In 2026, Primary and Secondary schools will be competing within their own categories, with different challenges for each category. Participating schools can continue to expect a complimentary playfield delivered to them. The mode of submission is mostly online, with invited teams at Admiralty Secondary School (for the Primary School category) and Nanyang Polytechnic (for the Secondary School category) for a face-to-face Surprise Mission on 28 May for the Best Robot Performance. The theme for 18th NRPC revolves around De-extinction theme using only LEGO® MINDSTORMS ™ set, EV3 OR LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime Set.

Competition Website

NRPC 2026

RoboCup Singapore

  • Dates: 10 – 12 April 2026
  • Venue: Singapore Science Centre

This event will be the RoboCup Singapore National Selection to select the best teams to represent Singapore at RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP), as well as RoboCup World Championship. RoboCup is considered to be the pinnacle Robotics and AI competition which is strongly recognized by top academic institutions and industries worldwide.

Competition Website

DSTA-DSO VJC Robotics Challenge

  • Date: 8 July 2026 (Registration Deadline and Preliminary video submission)
  • Final Rounds: 24 July 2026
  • Venue: Victoria Junior College

Organised by VJC, DSTA and DSO, this competition has 2 main events, the Exploration Challenge and the Autonomous Challenge. The Exploration Challenge requires participants to control 3 separate robots to complete a mission. Each team will have to build and prepare 3 robots either using LEGO Mindstorms or VEX platform. The Autonomous Challenge requires the robot to be pre-programmed to complete a challenge (e.g. scanning and shifting of cubes in a certain order). All missions and rules are released a few months before the competition date.

Competition Website

National Robotics Competition (NRC)

  • Date: 24 – 28 Aug 2026
  • Venue: Science Centre Singapore

Organised by Science Centre Singapore, NRC has various competition categories like the Regular, Open, AI Maker. The mission challenges are usually announced 4 to 5 months ahead of the competition date.

Competition Website

World Robot Olympiad (WRO) – Singapore Nationals

  • Singapore Nationals: 8 – 11 Sept 2026
  • Venue: Singapore Polytechnic

The WRO® theme for 2026 is Robots Meet Culture.

This year there are 4 categories, Robomission, RoboSports, Future Engineers and Future Innovators.

Competition Website

World Robot Olympiad (WRO) – International Finals

  • International Finals: 8-10 Dec 2026
  • Venue: San Juan, Puerto Rico

The WRO® International round is held in a different member country every year. The top teams from the WRO Singapore Nationals will be invited to participate at the WRO International Finals.

Competition Website

Competitions on Hiatus

  • Date: Not Announced
  • Venue: TBC

Organised by Nanyang Polytechnic, this competition has a total of 6 categories:

  • Rescue Ranger,
  • Cybersecurity and Digitalization,
  • Build your dream aircraft, Walking Robot,
  • Energy Harvester, and
  • AI & Data.

This event offers secondary school students an opportunity to apply their knowledge of engineering, science and technology to meaningfully challenges. These challenges aim to stimulate students’ innovative, creative and critical thinking skills and inculcate a passion in how things work.

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Singapore Robotics Games (SRG) 2022

  • Date: Last held in 2022
  • Venue: TBC

Jointly organised by the various polytechnics, ITEs and universities in Singapore. Some examples of their events include Autonomous Underwater Robots and Legged Robot Marathon Race. The SRG is meant as a display to the public of what the tertiary students can do with robotics and a glimpse into the future generation of commercially-available robots.

Competition Website

  • Date: To be announced, last held in July 2019
  • Venue: To be announced

APYRC consists of many events like the Sumo Robot, Tug-of-War and Mission Programming. Most events are carried out in the knock out format. As the competition format is less demanding it is a good introductory competition for newcomers to the robotic competition scene.

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  • Date: Not Announced
  • Venue: TBC

This competition is organised by Rulang Primary School and is part of the RoboFest STEM Conference. The competition is carried out in a surprise mission format. Participants will have to build and program their LEGO robots to accomplish certain tasks within 3 to 4 hours.

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(2024 and 2025 event details not available, likely discontinued)

  • Date: July
  • Venue: Science Centre Singapore

RoboMaster 2022 Youth Championship Singapore is a national level competition as the champion, first runner-up, second runner-up and third runner-up teams of RoboMaster 2022 Youth Championship Singapore may choose to represent Singapore at either RoboMaster 2022 Youth Championship Final in China where all top teams of RoboMaster 2022 Youth Championship will compete for the grand champion, or at DJI RoboMaster International Game to compete using remote access technologies with teams from other countries.