Join Europe’s smartest minds in robotics for the European Robotics League 2026 – where research meets real-world challenges. From 13–15 May 2026, The Hague (Scheveningen) in The Netherlands, transformed into the arena for cutting-edge robotics, innovation, and three days of competition, collaboration, and fun.
European Robotics League 2026
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European Robotics League 2026
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Avrin Guillaume
Pedro U. Lima
Francesco Ferro
Matthew Studley
Nico Hochgeschwender
Francisco Javier Pérez Grau
Matteo Matteucci
Antidio Viguria Jiménez
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ERL 2026: The League returns next month
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About ERL
The European Robotics League is run by the SciRoc project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme under grant agreement n° 780086. SciRoc is the consortium that will take the European Robotics League to a new level, led by a team from the University of the West of England, Bristol. (UK) with the following members:
- Hochschule Bonn-Rhein- Sieg (Germany)
- Fundacion Andaluza para el Desarrollo Espacial (Spain)
- NATO Science and Technology Organisation (Belgium)
- Eurobotics AISBL (Belgium),
- Associacao Do Instituto Superior Tecnico Para a Investigacao e Desenvolvimento (Portugal)
- The Open University (UK)
- Politecnico de Milano (Italy)
- Universita Degli Studi di Roma la Sapienza (Italy)
- Universitat Politecnica de Cataluya (Spain)
ERL Categories
SPARC introduces the exciting new European Robotics League (ERL), now including a novel major tournament category: ERL Smart Cities, in addition to the on-going competitions, ERL Consumer (previously Service), ERL Professional (previously Industrial) and ERL Emergency Service Robots.
The ERL builds on the success of the EU-FP7/H2020 projects: RoCKIn, euRathlon, EuRoC and ROCKEU2 and is now run by the H2020 project SciRoc.
ERL History
The European Robotics League local and major tournaments are based in Europe and are open to international participation. Teams will compete in three vibrant fields of robotics under the theme of smart urban enviroments. Competitors will engage in annual local tournaments organised by a consortium of Europe´s most prestigious robotics institutes. The biennial SciRoc Challenge (also known as the ERL Smart Cities Robotics Challenge) will be held in Smart Cities across Europe, where robots from all three categories will come together to interact with the smart infrastructure in familiar urban settings.
These competitions aim at replicating consistent benchmarking results more than stating a winner of a single event, and have been designed to target three clear objectives: the European societal challenge of aging population, the strengthening of the European robotics service industry and to push the state of the art in autonomous systems for emergency response.
In addition, robot competitions meet educational needs and can serve as an excellent platform for developing the skills of future engineers and scientists, raising student awareness and understanding of applied research and development in robotics.
