2026
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Sheridan College, Davis Campus
October 22–25, 2026
Hosted by RoboCup Canada
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RoboCupJunior Americas
An educational robotics initiative spanning North and South America, for students up to 19 years old. Part of the global RoboCup organization.
It runs on regional committees — each country organizing its own local events and qualifiers, all feeding the annual RoboCupJunior International Competition, where teams from across the continent compete on a global stage.
What they compete in
Three leagues
Every edition runs the same three, so a team that starts locally is already preparing for the international competition.
Soccer
Robots play two a side on a green field, tracking the ball and each other with no one driving them. Teams tune strategy between matches.
Rules and resources
Rescue
A robot follows a line through debris, ramps and obstacles, or maps a maze room by room, to find victims and carry them to safety.
Rules and resources
OnStage
Teams build robots that perform for an audience — dance, theatre, storytelling — and are judged on the performance as much as the engineering.
Rules and resourcesWho runs it
Regional committees
Regional committees promote and organize RoboCupJunior across the Americas. Each one is responsible for:
- Organizing local RoboCup events and open competitions
- Managing qualifications for international RoboCup leagues
- Maintaining RoboCup standards for research and education
- Promoting the initiative within their own country
- Sharing knowledge between participants
Each committee adapts the global framework to local educational needs and technical capacity, which is why the competition looks a little different in every country and still qualifies teams for the same international event.
Since 1998
25 years of making history
RoboCupJunior has been getting students into robotics for over twenty-five years — and the shape of it has barely changed, because it worked from the start.
Students who take part come away more interested in STEM subjects and measurably better at computational thinking and engineering — but the part that lasts is less academic than that. They work in a team under time pressure, they meet people who do this for a living, and they watch something they built succeed or fail in front of an audience.
1998
Paris, France
The idea debuts at the RoboCup international competition.
2000
Melbourne, Australia
The first official RoboCupJunior competition, with three challenges: Dance, Sumo — later renamed Rescue — and Soccer.
Today
Across the Americas
The same three leagues, run by regional committees from Canada to Chile, feeding the international competition each year.
Get in touch
Ask us anything
info at robocupamericas.org