At WRO 2025, we’re competing in the Future Engineers category—designing and programming a self-driving car that tackles real-world challenges with creativity and precision.
About
Future engineers
In 2025, we’re proudly taking part in the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) www.wro2025.org, competing in the Future Engineers category—an advanced challenge that pushes the boundaries of robotics, engineering, and innovation. This category is all about solving real-world problems with practical, high-tech solutions, and we’re thrilled to be part of it.
Our mission? To design, build, and program a fully functional self-driving car that can navigate complex environments safely and intelligently. From sensor integration and AI-based decision-making to precise control systems, we’re combining creativity, teamwork, and technical skill to develop a solution that reflects the future of mobility. Through this challenge, we’re not just learning—we’re building what’s next.
The challenge
Future engineers
World Robot Olympiad is expanding the set of competitions offered for students around the world by adding a new competition: “Future Engineers”.
The WRO Future Engineers category is a self driving car competition. Students ages 14 to 19 will design a model car, equip it with electromechanical components, and program it so it will be able to autonomously drive on a track and avoid obstacles.
In the Self-Driving Cars challenge a robotic vehicle needs to drive autonomously on a parkours that randomly changes for each competition round.
Every WRO category has a special focus on learning with robots. In the WRO Future Engineers category, students will focus on developing in the following areas:
- Use of computer vision and sensor fusion to estimate the state of the parkours and the vehicle itself.
- A working vehicle with open-source hardware such as electromechanical components and controllers.
- Action planning and control of robots with moving parts and kinematics different from the differential drive (e.g., steering).
- Optimal strategies to solve the mission, including stability of mission solving.
- Teamwork, communication, problem solving, project management, creativity.
- An Engineering journal to show progress and design strategies.
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