Opportunity brief
Takeshi's Bots is a fully autonomous maze-navigation challenge that tests a robot's accuracy, sensing, path planning, and decision-making. Robots must independently navigate a covered 3 × 3 m maze, overcome dead ends, and reach the centrally located finish without any human or remote intervention. With 3 attempts and a 5-minute limit per run, the fastest successful robot conquers the castle.
"Navigate. Survive. Conquer the Castle."
Details:
- Category: Accuracy(fully autonomous)
- Duration: 2 Hours
- Date: 17th October 2026
- Time: 12:00 PM
- Venue: Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology
- Mode: Offline
- Team Size: 3-5 participants
- No. of rounds: 3 attempts per team (best valid time to be considered)
Eligibility Criteria:
- Open to all students
- Inter-college participants allowed.
Pre-requisites:
Competition-ready robot complying with the specs below:
20x20x15 cm, max 48V DC, fully autonomous — no remote/human control during official run (only onboard sensing: ultrasonic, IR, ToF, LiDAR, cameras, encoders, IMU, etc.)
Event Flow:
- 3 attempts per team, max 5 minutes per attempt; best valid completion time counts
- Failure to reach FINISH within 5 minutes = DNF
- Tie-breaker: one-on-one additional run, lower valid time wins
- Organisers install an external monitoring device (min. 8x8 cm mounting area) on each robot before every attempt.
Rules & Regulations:
- Arena: square 300x300 cm, 25 cm outer wall height, 35 cm corridor width, covered from top; FINISH at centre.
- No inspecting/photographing/recording the maze before or during the official attempt
- Slight/incidental wall contact allowed; forceful/repeated contact altering the maze layout = violation, may DQ the attempt
- DQ if robot knocks down a wall, breaks maze sections, opens an unintended route, or damages the maze
- Deliberate human intervention during a run → DQ; robot simply failing on its own → DNF
- Teams must not obstruct, modify, disconnect, or interfere with the organiser's monitoring device