Botball 2026 - Game & Season

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Stack Attack Story

Innovation on the Frontline of Global Logistics

Across the world, modern supply chains rely on fleets of autonomous systems to keep communities connected — delivering food, medicine, and materials that sustain life and progress. But this year, a massive global data synchronization glitch has struck. The AI network controlling the world’s smart warehouses has gone offline, halting the automated flow of goods and leaving pallets, crates, and packaging scattered in disarray.

With distribution centers overwhelmed and humanity depending on rapid restoration, Botguy has been called to action once again. Armed with the latest robotics technology, Botguy and the Botball community are deploying autonomous warehouse robots to restore order to chaos. These agile machines must coordinate under pressure to move, sort, and organize critical supplies while avoiding system interference and maximizing efficiency.

As a Botball engineer, your mission is clear: Design, build, and program two autonomous robots that can manage logistics in a dynamic warehouse environment. Your robots must collect materials, sort and stack crates by type and color, deliver drums to their designated storage points, and return empty packaging bins to the proper stations. The success of your operation will depend on balance — precision versus speed, planning versus adaptability, and autonomy versus collaboration.

Each second of the match represents the heartbeat of a global supply chain waiting to come back online. As the countdown begins, your robots will take the warehouse floor in a race to optimize movement, recover misplaced cargo, and stabilize the flow of resources. The teams that demonstrate the best coordination, creativity, and innovation will lead the charge in reprogramming the future of logistics.

This year’s Botball challenge celebrates the real-world applications of AI, automation, and robotics in global infrastructure. It highlights how technology — guided by human ingenuity — can rebuild resilience in systems that connect people and possibilities around the planet.

Can your robots bring order to the warehouse and help Botguy reboot the world’s supply chain? The future of automation begins here — in your hands.

Director’s Note

As we step into the 2026 season, I am inspired by how far we have come — and even more excited for where your innovation will take us next. Stack Attack challenges us to think beyond the robot and into the systems that keep our world moving.

Automation, artificial intelligence, and logistics are no longer just buzzwords — they are the invisible framework connecting communities and shaping the future of how we live, learn, and recover. Through this year’s challenge, your teams will explore the same technologies that power global resilience — the robotics that rebuild after disasters, the algorithms that optimize resource distribution, and the creativity that keeps progress human-centered.

I encourage you to experiment boldly, collaborate deeply, and embrace every challenge as an opportunity to learn something new. The warehouse may be chaotic, but from that chaos comes the spark of innovation that defines Botball.

Let’s make 2026 a year of precision, teamwork, and imagination — one crate, one robot, and one brilliant idea at a time.

Respectfully,

Steve Goodgame

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