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Achievements

Robot sumo is a Japanese method, accepted worldwide, of advancing robot construction and manufacturing skills through competitive challenge. Here are our teams’ results and the history of sumo robot building in Latvia.

Medals in total

  • 351st place
  • 312nd place
  • 273rd place

  1. 20265 × Place 12 × Place 22 × Place 3

  2. Baltic Robot Sumo, Klaipėda, Lithuania

    Mega Sumo
    Place 1Slash
    Micro Sumo
    Place 1Spark

  5. 20253 × Place 13 × Place 23 × Place 3

  6. RoboChallenge, Bucharest, Romania

    Mega Sumo
    Place 2Arrow
    Mini Sumo
    Place 1Bolt

  7. Baltic Robot Sumo, Klaipėda, Lithuania

    Mega Sumo
    Place 1StrikerPlace 3Phoenix
    Mini Sumo
    Place 1BoltPlace 2ThunderPlace 3Preili Power

  9. 20241 × Place 3

  10. 20223 × Place 13 × Place 23 × Place 3

    Robotex 2022, Tallinn, Estonia

    Mini Sumo
    Place 1BoltPlace 3Preili Power
    Folkrace
    Place 1Morics W8Place 2Zaļais

  11. Sun Robot Battle, Šiauliai, Lithuania

    Mini Sumo
    Place 2BoltPlace 3Preili Power
    Folkrace
    Place 1B1Place 2Z1Place 3Morics W8

  12. 20202 × Place 13 × Place 22 × Place 3

  13. Robotex 2019, Tallinn, Estonia

    Mini Sumo
    Place 1Preili PowerPlace 2Bolt

  14. 20193 × Place 11 × Place 3

  15. RobotChallenge 2019, Vienna, Austria

    Mini Sumo
    Place 1Bolt
    Micro Sumo
    Place 3Piranha
    Nano Sumo
    Place 1Bug

  16. 20188 × Place 110 × Place 27 × Place 3

  17. RoboChallenge 2018, Bucharest, Romania

    Mini Sumo
    Place 2MA
    Micro Sumo
    Place 1Piranha

  18. RobotChallenge 2018, Vienna, Austria

    Mini Sumo
    Place 4PoweRiga
    Micro Sumo
    Place 3Piranha
    Nano Sumo
    Place 1Bug

  21. Robotiada 2018, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Mini Sumo
    Place 2Shark
    iRobot Sumo
    Place 1PannaPlace 2MildiņšPlace 3Opis

  24. 20172 × Place 13 × Place 22 × Place 3

    Robotex 2017, Tallinn, Estonia

    Mega Sumo
    Place 2Joker
    Mini Sumo
    Place 1SkorpionsPlace 2EaglePlace 3Mister Nobody
    iRobot Sumo
    Place 1OpisPlace 2Cobra

  26. 20164 × Place 13 × Place 22 × Place 3

    Robotex 2016, Tallinn, Estonia

    Mega Sumo
    Place 1Flash
    Mini Sumo
    Place 1SkorpionsPlace 2EaglePlace 3PoweRiga
    iRobot Sumo
    Place 1OpisPlace 3Jenifera

  27. RobotChallenge 2016, Vienna, Austria

    Mega Sumo
    Place 2Joker
    Mini Sumo
    Place 1PoweRiga
    Freestyle
    Place 2iRobot Sumo

  28. 2015

    Mega Sumo robot builders

    Latvian Mega Sumo robot builders are currently the winners of the European championship, the world championship and the All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament.

  29. Baltic Robot Sumo

    For seven years now, Baltic Robot Sumo has been the most important robotics event in the region, and the All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament has licensed it as the first international robot sumo tournament.

  30. 20142 × Place 11 × Place 21 × Place 3

    World Championship

    All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament, Tokyo, Japan

    The Robotu Skola team with Mega Sumo robots wins 1st place at the most challenging autonomous sumo robot competition in the world – the All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament Grand Finals.

    Mega Sumo
    Place 1Blitz (Einārs Deksnis)

  31. RobotChallenge, Vienna, Austria

    The Robotu Skola team with Mega Sumo robots wins 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place at the largest European robotics competition and represents the strongest European robots at the All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament Grand Finals in Tokyo.

    Mega Sumo
    Place 1Place 2Place 3Place 4Place 5

  32. 20132 × Place 11 × Place 22 × Place 3

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at Baltic Robot Sumo

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits the Baltic states, gives a historic address at Robotex and the Baltic Robot Sumo championship, personally greets Baltic robotics enthusiasts and urges them to be pioneers of the world’s progress.

    “This is an inspiring and exciting day for me. I’ve seen the future of our world – the young people, scientists who make innovations and who change our world. This is inspiring, I’m really excited. You are pioneers of our future. And I thank you for your innovation.”

    Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, address at Baltic Robot Sumo 2013

  33. All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament, Tokyo, Japan

    The Robotu Skola team with Mega Sumo robots wins 3rd place at the most challenging autonomous sumo robot competition in the world – the All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament Grand Finals.

    Mega Sumo
    Place 3

  34. Robogames, California, USA

    First place at Robogames, the world’s largest robotics competition. Latvia is invited to the All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament Grand Finals in Tokyo, representing the world’s strongest robots.

    Mega Sumo
    Place 1

  35. RobotChallenge, Vienna, Austria

    1st, 2nd and 3rd place at the largest European robotics competition. Latvia is invited to the All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament Grand Finals in Tokyo, representing the strongest European robots.

    Mega Sumo
    Place 1Place 2Place 3

  36. 20121 × Place 11 × Place 2

    RobotChallenge, Vienna, Austria

    1st and 2nd place at the largest European robotics competition. Latvia is invited to the All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament Grand Finals in Tokyo.

    Mega Sumo
    Place 1Place 2

  37. 20111 × Place 3

    RobotChallenge, Vienna, Austria

    3rd place at the largest European robotics competition. Latvia is invited to the All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament Grand Finals in Tokyo.

    Mega Sumo
    Place 3

  39. 20101 × Place 2

    Robogames, California, USA

    Latvian robotics enthusiasts win 2nd place at the world’s largest robotics competition. Latvia is invited to the All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament Grand Finals in Tokyo. Maris Abele meets Grant Imahara from Mythbusters.

    Mega Sumo
    Place 2

  40. 2009

    Robotu Skola

    Latvian robotics enthusiasts join forces in the team “Robotu Skola” to share knowledge, build better robots, and achieve a quantum leap and international success. Robotu Skola organises robotics education and the participation of Latvian robot builders in the world’s leading robotics tournaments. Funded by volunteers and the iRobot distributor in Latvia.

  41. 2008

    Baltic Robot Sumo founded

    Robotics enthusiasts from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia found a significant international robotics championship – the Baltic Robot Sumo tournament.

  42. 2007

    iRobot begins supporting roboticists

    The iRobot distributor in Latvia begins to support robotics enthusiasts in the Baltic states – robot building and participation in robotics competitions and workshops around the world.

  43. 2006

    RTU and the RTU Robotics Club

    Riga Technical University begins to support the organisation of robotics competitions in Latvia; RTU has special academic programmes for the education of robotics engineers. The RTU Robotics Club begins to build robots for competitions and to organise robotics competitions in Latvia, popularising robot building as interesting and practical knowledge.

  44. 2004

    RobotChallenge, Vienna, Austria

    The largest annual European robotics competition, founded in Vienna, Austria, in cooperation with the Austrian Ministry of Science. Hundreds of robots from around the world take part.

  45. Robogames, California, USA

    The largest robot competition in the world – an annual event in California, USA.

  46. 2001

    Robotex, Tallinn, Estonia

    The first robotics competition in the Baltics, founded in Estonia.

  47. 1987

    All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament, Tokyo, Japan

    Fujisoft chairman and chief executive officer Hiroshi Nozawa combines Japan’s national sport of sumo with robotics in order to promote robot design and manufacturing skills through competition. Since 1987, the most challenging robot sumo tournament has taken place in the main arena of the Sumo Association in Tokyo (Ryōgoku Kokugikan). About 4000 robots from around the world take part in the competition, and only winners are invited to the All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament Grand Finals.