RoboMaster / ROBOCON University Robotics Competitions

China's two best-known university robotics competitions, where many robotics engineers get their start.

RoboMaster is organized by drone maker DJI: university teams design and build their own robots and compete in shooting-based combat, involving mechanical design, electronic control, vision-based aiming, and embedded development. ROBOCON traces back to ABU Robocon, run by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, with a different task each year — throwing balls, carrying objects, and so on — and China's national qualifying rounds co-organized by China Central Television and others. Both require students to build a working robot completely from scratch, exercising full-system engineering skills. Embodied-AI companies hiring engineers often treat this kind of competition experience as a reference for hands-on ability.

ExampleMany core engineers at Chinese robotics startups took part in RoboMaster teams as undergraduates.

Also called

Robomaster Robotics Competition, ABU Robocon

Related

DJI · RoboCup · Embedded Software Development · STMicroelectronics STM32 MCU Family · DARPA Robotics Challenge

Sources

RoboMaster 官网 (Chinese)
ABU Robocon - Wikipedia