Community and Media

Community and race series for hobbyists building small autonomous racing robots.

Community and Slack around the Duckietown self-driving robot education platform.

Live hack-chat rooms on Hackaday.io with thousands of hardware makers online.

Hugging Face's Discord with channels for LeRobot and open robot learning projects.

Discord for K-Scale Labs' open source humanoid robot builders and contributors.

Discourse and Discord community for the Klipper 3D printer firmware, used in many robot controllers.

Community chat for Luxonis OAK depth-camera and spatial AI developers.

NVIDIA developer forum category for Isaac Sim, Isaac ROS and Omniverse robotics tools.

Community chat for owners of Petoi's Bittle and Nybble open source robot pets.

Unofficial real time chat server for ROS and ROS 2 users to ask quick questions.

Archived site for the influential warehouse robot picking and manipulation challenge.

Stanford led simulation benchmark challenge for everyday household robot tasks.

Ongoing benchmark challenge for self driving policies using the open source CARLA simulator.

Archived site for DARPA's disaster response humanoid robot challenge program.

Amateur robotics contest for student and club teams, mainly in Europe.

International student competition for Mars-analog planetary rovers, held in Poland.

Open source 1/10th scale autonomous racing competition and research platform.

Robotics program for younger students using LEGO based robot building and coding challenges.

High school robotics competition where teams build robots to play a yearly game.

Annual embodied AI navigation challenge run on the Habitat simulator.

Annual open hardware design contest run by Hackaday with cash prizes.

Classic maze-solving robot competition run at many regional and national events.

NeurIPS-linked competition on controlling biomechanically realistic muscle models.

International robotics competition federation spanning soccer, rescue and home leagues.

RoboCup league for domestic service robots performing household assistance tasks.

Large autonomous robotics competition series based in Estonia, open to all ages.

Student robotics competition for grades 4-12 with worldwide tournaments.

Nonprofit that runs large incentive competitions, including robotics and physical AI prizes.

A3's flagship US trade show for robotics, vision and motion control.

World-leading trade fair for industrial robotics, automation and machine vision.

World's largest consumer tech show, with a large humanoid and consumer robotics floor.

Annual research conference on the intersection of robotics and machine learning.

Major embedded systems trade fair covering microcontrollers used in robot controllers.

Annual workshop at CVPR on embodied AI, simulation and robot learning benchmarks.

Europe's largest gathering of the robotics research and industry community.

Free open source developer conference in Brussels with a robotics devroom some years.

Huge industrial technology trade fair with a large robotics and automation hall.

UK show for electronics, embedded systems and edge AI engineers building hardware.

Biennial IFRR conference on advanced robotics research and applications.

Flagship annual IEEE robotics research conference held in a different city each year.

IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering for industrial automation research.

Annual IEEE-RAS conference dedicated to humanoid robot research.

International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, one of the largest robotics trade shows.

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, a top research venue.

European intralogistics trade fair with strong warehouse robotics presence.

Family friendly maker and DIY hardware festival with robots, drones and 3D printing.

Supply chain trade show featuring warehouse and logistics robotics vendors.

Major North American manufacturing and supply chain trade show with warehouse robotics.

IEEE conference on soft robotics research and applications.

Boston based conference and expo for commercial and industrial robot developers.