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Sport Robotics-related games
FoundedRajkumar Sharma
Inaugural season2014
Motto"Inspiring Innovation"
No. of teams2248 (Yr2022)
Countries15 Countries
Venue(s) Indira Gandhi Arena
Official website www.technoxian.com

The Technoxian, World Robotics Championship Series is a tournament where teams from all over the world comes to India to participate in various robotics challenges including Bots Combat, Robo Race, [1] Robo Soccer, Maze Solver, Water Rocket, Drone Racing, RC Plane Racing and Innovation. 6th Edition of the championship held at Indira Gandhi Arena, India.

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Each year between July and September, this international [2] competition for youth organized at New Delhi, India. Youngsters aged between 8 and 20, form a club or they represent their school/college and apply for specific category of challenges. These clubs design and build their bots and then meet for national and international challenges to compete, showcase their talent, passion, team spirit, creative ideas. These clubs also get guidance and training throughout the year from the experts arranged by TechnoXian committee.

The Technoxian is also been supported by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India [3] and AICRA - All India Council for Robotics & Automation, [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] a non-profit organization working towards encouraging youth to learn new technologies and prepare for future roles.

History

The first edition of Technoxian robotics tournament was played at IIT Gandhinagar in year 2014. Around 558 teams participated 4 categories of challenges from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. 2nd edition was held at IIT Delhi and 1202 teams participated in 8 categories of challenges from 7 countries in year 2015. 3rd edition held at Indira Gandhi Arena with 1900 teams in 9 categories and 12 countries team participated. 4th edition held at Thyagaraj Sports Complex with 1852 teams from 13 countries in year 2018. 5th edition organized again at Thyagaraj Sports Complex with 2952 teams from 18 countries in 9 categories. Due to Covid tournament postponed. 6th edition organized at Indira Gandhi Arena with 2248 teams from 15 countries in year 2022.

Competition categories

Every year, the Technoxian governing committee decides the rules and norms for the challenges. There are nine categories of competition. [10] These include:

Technoxian Clubs

Technoxian Clubs are to be formed by any education institutions including school, college, university, vocational institute or a group of youngsters who are interested in robotics and technologies. Each club should consist minimum 5 participants. Experts from all over contributes knowledge and skill to the members of official TX clubs. Participants also gets opportunity to exchange knowledge with other participants worldwide via TX club platform and gets support under Tech Startup Program. [21]

Technoxian Championship

In each category of competition, there is a winner, [22] first runner up and two second runners up. All winning teams get a certificate from AICRA along with a cash award. [22] USD 30,000 distributed during 6th edition of Technoxian. For the year 2023, US$50,000 has been allocated. Winning teams also gets listing as special clubs where they gets support in future skill development, interaction with senior scientists, exposure of industries. Apart from India, [23] until now teams participated from Zimbabwe, Egypt, Italy, Bangladesh, [2] Norway, Netherlands, Iran, [24] Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, [25] Malaysia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Nepal, UAE, Morocco, Germany, Nigeria, Turkey, Tunisia, Kenya.

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  12. ↑ "Robo Race Challenge". TechnoXian. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  13. ↑ "RoboSoccer Challenge". TechnoXian. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  14. ↑ "Maze Solver Challenge". TechnoXian.
  15. ↑ "Fastest Line Follower". TechnoXian. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  16. ↑ "Water Rocket Challenge". TechnoXian. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  17. ↑ "Drone Challenge". TechnoXian. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
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  19. ↑ "Innovation Challenge". TechnoXian. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
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