KIPR Open Autonomous Robot Game

The KIPR Open Autonomous Robotics Game (formerly known as Beyond Botball) is distributed by KISS Institute for Practical Robotics to encourage ongoing robotics education beyond the high school level.

KIPR Open

College and university educators are encouraged to use the KIPR Open game spec as a project in their science and engineering courses. Mentors, parents and teachers of Botball teams are encouraged to focus their own creative energies into a solution for the KIPR Open (let the kids build their own robots!). Some examples of how the KIPR Open has been used in college courses can be found in this AAAI Spring Symposium paper.

If you or your organization holds a robotics event using the KIPR Open game, let us know so we can list it at our web site.

Visit the KIPR Open Area of the Botball forums to discuss the game.

Game Rules

KO10-game-1.5.pdf - released Feb 5, 2010

2010 KIPR Open Game Piece Set

You can buy the game piece set for this year's KIPR Open game at BotballStore.org. This set includes:

  • 2 - buckets (one orange and one green)
  • 2 - 12 quart shoe boxes
  • 18 - Small yellow foam balls
  • 2 - Plush Botguy Toys
  • 6 - Green Poms
  • 6 - Orange Poms
  • 6 - Green Poof Balls
  • 6 - Orange Poof Balls
  • 8 - Blue Poof Balls

International KIPR Open Autonomous Robot Tournament

We hope that those of you who create a team of robots to play the KIPR Open game will register for the Global Conference on Educational Robotics (GCER) and bring your team to the International KIPR Open Autonomous Robot Tournament.

You can read more about the Global Conference on Educational Robotics here.