Express Yourself with Robots! Robofest offers a unique STEAM learning opportunity using intelligent & interactive robotics with visual and/or performing arts categories. Robots must have computational components programmed by participants and must employ sensors. Maxumim 5 students.
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2025 Official RoboArts Rules and Related Documents
RoboArts Rules: (pdf) - V1.0 Released 9/28/24
RoboArts Judging Rubric: (pdf) - Released 9/28/24
RoboArts will be hosted around the world and during the Robofest World Championship on May 15-17, 2025. Winners of the Sr. RoboArts Division at the World Championship will receive an LTU Scholarship certificate.
To Register Your Team, go to
Rules for starting teams, registration, team responsibilities at competitions and how teams advance to the World Championship can be found in the General Rules on the 2025 Main Page.
Each team member must bring the signed Robofest Consent and Release Form on the day of the event if not completed online.
Technical Committee for Rules and Judging
Member: | Bio: |
Pam Sparks, Chairperson | Robofest staff member and coach since 2016. Holds BA in Biology and M.A.T from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. |
Lalita Mishra | Coming Soon |
Heidi Quick | Coming Soon |
Elmer Santos | Robofest Director, LTU Adjunct Professor of Computer Science |
Find out more information about the previous RoboArts/GRAF competitions here: Prior Years
RoboArts Example Projects (Just some ideas. Note that some examples here do not use sensors, which are required)
- Robot Dance: Stayin Alive
- Robot Group Dance: Synchronized AIBO Dance
- Robot Fashion Show
- Robot Music Band: the NXT blues
- Robot and Human Playing Music Together: When the Saints Go Marching In
- Robotic musical instruments played by humans: Robot Music Camp 2013
- Robot Skit: The Tortoise and the Hare
- Kinetic Sculptures: Moving desk lamps | Spatial Robot Kinetic Sculpture | Interactive Kinetic Arts | Reuben Margolin: On Kinetic Art | Gear Kinetic Art | Kinetic Art Sculpture, Mechanical Odyssey | Kinetic Art Sculpture, Muse Descending A Staircase | Kinetic Art Sculpture, Under the Influence - GK | Sand | Mechanical Art & Design Museum
- Kinetic Canvas: Dynamic Structure 29117 | Dynamic Structure 1586
- Robotic Painting: Franc | WaterColorBot