World Robot Olympiad - Hamburg Region (Season 2026)

The World Robot Olympiad (WRO)is a major global robotics competition for young people, and it has a significant presence in Germany.

🤖 What is the World Robot Olympiad (WRO)?

The WRO is an international competition focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)education.It challenges students to design, build, and program autonomous robots to solve specific tasks or projects. Honeydew Robotics only provide competition services. We do not organise the competition. 

• Goal:To help young people develop creativity, design, and problem-solving skills in a fun and engaging way.

  
  

• National Organizer in Germany:The non-profit organization TECHNIK BEGEISTERT e.V.coordinates the WRO events across the country.

  
  

• Structure in Germany:The competition involves numerous regional competitionsin over 40 cities, culminating in a large German Finalheld in a different city each year.The top teams from the German Final qualify to represent Germany at the annual International Final. (Germany even hosted the International Final in Dortmund in 2022)

Category: RoboMission

Teams build and program an autonomous robot to solve a challenge on a competition field. The tasks are known, but there are surprise elements.

Elementary(8–12 years), Junior(11–15 years), Senior(14–19 years)

Category: Future Innovators

A project-based category where teams develop an innovative intelligent robotics solution related to the season's theme to solve a real-world problem.

Elementary(8–12 years), Junior(11–15 years), Senior(14–19 years)

Category: RoboSports

Teams design and program two autonomous robots to compete head-to-head against another team's robots in a sports challenge (e.g., robot soccer).

All Ages(11–19 years)

Category: Future Engineers

Teams design and program an autonomous robotic car to navigate a complex, randomly assembled track, focusing on advanced engineering and programming.

All Ages(14–22 years)

In short, WRO in Germany is a massive, multi-level competition that encourages thousands of children and young adults to explore the world of robotics and STEM subjects!

Videos about WRO

Ways to take part in WRO through Honeydew Robotics

You can take part in WRO through your school. You can also take part in WRO through Honeydew Robotics or individually. If you decides to take part in competition through us, then you are at the right location. We Honeydew Robotics provide you training for the basic till advance robotics, which will help you to prepare for the competition. Our training services starts around October to December and ends in June to July following year. The regional rounds for the WRO starts somewhere in March to June. 

Starting date

For Hamburg, for season 2026, the training will start from 1st of December 2025. The training time will be from 17:00 till 18:15 on every Friday. Time can not be changed. At start training will be online. We will also regularly organise in person classes in Hamburg as and when needed. 

Cost of competition (Honeydew Robotics, not set by WRO)

The training cost from Honeydew Robotics is Euro 59 every month + 19%MwsT. The monthly tuition fees shall be transferred to Honeydew Robotics's Commerz Bank account, Bremen.

The registration fees to WRO competition is Euro 100 to 125, it may varry. The fees is decided by WRO not by Honeydew Robotics. 

Required hardware:

1. Lego Spike Prime Robot                                                     

Cost: Euro 400 to 500 (Available at Amazon, Conrad or many other websites)

2. Lego Spike Prime Extension Kit

Cost: Euro 100 to 150 (Available at Amazon, Conrad or many other websites)

3. Robot mat for the competition

Cost: Euro 30 to 50 (Available at WRO website. Or Honeydew Robotics can order it for you)

4. WRO Lego Element Kit

Cost: Euro 100 (Available at WRO website. Or Honeydew Robotics can order it for you)

4. Windows 10/11 Laptop or Tablet 

5. Spare USB Cables

6. Empty 7 to 8 SqFt space in your house to program and test robots (MUST)

7. And a brain with lot(s) of patience and motivation 

Total H/W cost: Euro 700 to 800 one time. The same setup then can be used every year.

Interested to take part in Season 2026 WRO

If you are from Hamburg or around and are interested in WRO 2026, we will enroll you to our upcoming class from 1st of December 2025. Every Friday 17:00 till 18:15. At start classes will be online through Bremen. Later in person classes will be organised in Hamburg.

Please contact us at kontakt@honeydew-robotics.de. 

Sample setup of the competition: Elementary category