Students at a Unibots UK event

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Help student ideas reach the arena.

Help us challenge students across the UK to build real autonomous robots, meet peers from other universities, and turn classroom knowledge into practical engineering experience.

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Why support Unibots?

Invest in practical engineering talent

Unibots is an inter-university robotics competition designed to be accessible, energetic, and genuinely hands-on. Built around challenge, creativity, and community, it asks students to solve real engineering problems with simple machines they design, build, debug, and compete with themselves.

Reach motivated students

Meet engineers, computer scientists, designers, and builders while they are actively applying their skills.

Enable accessible robotics

Help keep entry and attendance free while supporting the equipment and infrastructure students need.

Build meaningful connections

Share your work through talks, event presence, volunteering, and conversations with teams.

Unibots organisers celebrating with students at the London finals
Celebrating the teams at the London finals.
Students working together to repair a robot beside the competition arena
Teams solve problems together between matches.
Students gathered around robots competing in the Unibots arena
Student-built robots take to the arena.
Students cheering as a robot competes in the arena
Competition brings teams together.

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What students take from Unibots

Testimonials adapted from post-event student interviews.

"Resilience was the biggest learning experience. Our robot kept breaking, so we made changes, adapted, and kept going."
Avni, 1st year Computer Science student
"It was cool seeing simple solutions work. Everyone was solving the same problem, but in so many different ways."
Aditya, Advanced Robotics Masters student
"There was a lot of fun talking to people from different universities and seeing how everyone approached the problem completely differently."
Karl, Masters AI student
"My biggest learning experience was doing things I had never done before, because this is not my degree."
Weronika, 2nd year Business Management student
Close-up of a student working on a robot
Volunteers and teams keep robots moving.
Students listening to a sponsor talk
Sponsor talks connect students with industry.

Support with your time

Help make the event happen

Not every contribution has to be financial. Unibots events rely on volunteers to help teams feel welcome, keep matches moving, and create the community that makes students want to keep building.

Support the event

Help with setup, team check-in, schedules, match flow, and the practical details that keep the day flowing!

Support the teams

Keep the energy high, answer questions, and help create a friendly competition atmosphere!

Share expertise

Join judging, give technical feedback, or bring industry perspective to students building their first robots!

Whether you can give a day, bring a colleague group, or help at a specific regional event, your time directly makes Unibots possible.

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Organisations we have worked with

Industry, research, and education partners have helped Unibots grow into a national student competition.

National Robotarium Kaikaku RS Accu Edinburgh Centre for Robotics Jane Street CENSIS Labman Autodesk Ooznest

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