RoboChallenge 2026: All of Team Georgia's Results

RoboChallenge 2026 is over. At one of Europe's largest international robotics championships, in Bucharest, Romania, Team Georgia competed for the first time. From 30 October to 2 November the team's three crews — RageByte, Kokadama and Kavtazi — represented Georgia with eight robots in five categories.

It was Georgia's first appearance at an international championship of this scale. In every category our robots met teams from 10 to 16 countries, among them strong teams from Brazil, Mexico, the USA, Japan, the United Kingdom and Poland. This article brings all of the championship's results together.

• Line Follower (83 robots, 12 countries): RageByte 2 — 10th place, Kavtazi — 13th place;
• Line Follower Turbo (54 robots, 10 countries): RageByte 3 — 11th place, Kavtazi2 — 17th place;
• Combat robots up to 1.36 kg (56 robots, 12 countries): Kokadama5 — 13th–16th place, Kokadama4 — 17th–24th place;
• Mega Sumo 3 kg (63 robots, 14 countries): RageByte — first in its group, finally 17th–32nd place (by our count, about 24th);
• Mini Sumo (269 robots, 16 countries): Kokadama — third in its group, finally 129th–192nd place (by our count, about 150th–165th).

The best result: RageByte 2 is in the Line Follower top ten — 10th of 83 robots. In all, four Georgian robots finished in the top 16 of three categories.

A line follower has to complete the track by following the line precisely, as fast as possible. In the classic Line Follower only 35 of the 83 robots got a time. RageByte 2 took 10th place with 4.628 seconds, and Kavtazi 13th with 5.606 seconds.

In Turbo only 20 of the 54 robots got a time: RageByte 3 finished 11th (4.465 seconds) and Kavtazi2 17th (6.270 seconds). Both categories were won by NEON 01 of the Mexican team EXOTIC. More: the Line Follower results.

In the 1.36 kg (3 lb) combat robot tournament a robot is out only after its second defeat. With two robots Kokadama fought 9 fights and won 5.

• Kokadama5 lost its first fight to the British Delta V, which later finished third in the championship. In the second-chance bracket it beat four opponents in a row — robots from Romania, Mexico, Moldova and Spain — and reached the quarterfinal. There it lost to AḠDAR PL from Uzbekistan and finished the championship in 13th–16th place.
• Kokadama4 had no opponent in the first round. It beat the Mexican D-Hex by knockout, then lost to the British Pi v2 and to AḠDAR PL from Uzbekistan — 17th–24th place.

The champion was Biribinha 3lb from Brazil. More: both of Kokadama's robots in the round of 16, Kokadama reach the quarterfinal and the combat robot results.

In Mega Sumo (3 kg) 63 robots competed in 16 groups. The best two of each group — 32 robots in all — went on to the final stage, where one defeat meant elimination. RageByte finished Group 5 in first place: it beat PHOENIX from Latvia 2:0 and Shogun from Romania 2:1, and lost 0:2 to AzeRobot from Azerbaijan. In the first match of the final stage, against ONl from Romania, it was eliminated after a disputed decision (0:2 in the official table).

In Mini Sumo 269 robots competed in 64 groups, and 128 went on to the final stage. Kokadama finished third in Group 37: the results of two matches that had been won under the championship's rules were cancelled. GRA filed complaints about these decisions. More: the sumo results.

The official sumo tables show the groups and the final-stage matches, but no overall places. So we worked out our robots' places from the official results ourselves: robots knocked out at the same stage share their places, and among them we ordered the robots by their place in the group, their points and their round difference.

• RageByte, Mega Sumo: 16 robots were knocked out in the first matches of the final stage — they share places 17 to 32. By its group results RageByte is eighth among them, that is about 24th of 63 robots.
• Kokadama, Mini Sumo: 64 robots finished third in their groups — they share places 129 to 192. By points and rounds Kokadama is about 150th–165th of 269 robots.

At their very first appearance Georgia's robots met some of the best teams in Europe and the world and finished in the top 16 of three categories. A 10th place in Line Follower, four wins in a row in combat robots and a group win in Mega Sumo are an important step for Georgian robotics.

We will bring the experience from Bucharest back to Georgia — into our championships and our learning programmes. Registration is already open for an international combat robot championship in Georgia: ROBO BATTLE 2026–2027. To build a sumo or line follower robot, start with our guides: Mega Sumo, Mini Sumo and line follower.

• RageByte (Mega Sumo, Line Follower, Turbo): Dachi Nazrishvili, Eto Chakhvashvili, Misho Kalandarishvili and Nini Gotsadze;
• Kokadama (combat robots, Mini Sumo): Konstantine, Kakhaber and Davit Kvaratskhelia and Maia Tsulaia;
• Kavtazi (Line Follower, Turbo): Rati Gogichashvili and Nino Meshveliani.

Thank you to the teams for their hard work, their resilience and for competing in Georgia's name!

Main supporters: the University of Georgia and Tegeta Robotics.

Supporters: Arte, Ialonix, the Energy Efficiency Centre (EEC Georgia) and Tbilisi Digital School.

Thank you to every donor and every fan — with your support our teams represented Georgia on the international stage for the first time. All of the championship's official results: RoboChallenge 2026 — standings.