The 2025 Winter Season is here.
RIC 2025 Winter. In full force.
The Robotics Innovation Challenge (RIC) is an international healthcare-themed robotics competition organized by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in collaboration with NUS Advanced Robotics Centre (ARC) and NUS Department of Biomedical Engineering as Technical Partners! RIC is also part of the prestigious SHADE event and the Singapore Robotics Games (SRG). RIC is officially integrated into the Singapore Robotic Games, which boasts an impressive 29-year history and stands as the largest robotics competition in Singapore for tertiary education students.
Co-Organizers
Technical Partner
Competition Games.
Technical Competitions (TC)
The Technical Competitions (TC) allow you to indulge in fun sporting events for your robots, and challenge your technical capabilities through simple yet demanding tasks! Show everyone the athleticism of you and your robot, to prove to us that you are the best athlete among all!
- RIC Sumo – Build a robust sumo robot to compete directly with your friend.
- RIC Marathon – Build an agile and accurate line-following robot to run.
Innovation Design Challenge (IDC)
The Innovation Design Challenge (IDC) allows you to design and innovate solutions to real world problems with a fresh new healthcare-related theme every RIC season!
- RIC 2025 Winter Theme – “Fitness RoboFriends”
Grand Arena (GA)
The Grand Arena Event will be taking a hiatus for the RIC 2025 Winter Season. We are working very hard for a revamp that will be unveiled in the next RIC 2025 Summer Season!
Talent Categories & Awards.
Talent Categories.
- Talents can choose to join any of our competition games individually, or in teams of up to 4 participants.
- Talents will be divided into two categories: Junior (up to 12 years old) and Open (up to 17 years old).
Technical Competitions (TC).
- Champion: Cash Prize (TBD) + Certificate
- Gold Tier Award (rest of the Top 10%): Certificate
- Silver Tier Award (next 10%): Certificate
- Bronze Tier Award (next 20%): Certificate
Innovation Design Challenge (IDC).
- Champion: Cash Prize (TBD) + Certificate
- First Runner Up: Cash Prize (TBD) + Certificate
- Second Runner Up: Cash Prize (TBD) + Certificate
- Popularity Award (x3): Certificate
- Innovative Award (x3): Certificate
Match Scheduling.
Qualifying Stage.
During the Qualifying Stage, each team will be grouped into sub-groups of 3-5 teams (depending on scale of competition). Within the groups, each team will compete with all other teams in a round-robin format. Each round-robin matchup will be Best of 2 (BO2) Competition (2-0: Win/Loss; 1-1: Draw). Each team that won will get 3 points, 1 point for draws and 0 points for a loss. The top 1-3 teams (again, depending on scale) that emerged from each group will advance to the Elimination Stage.
Elimination Stage.
During the Elimination Stage, the top seeded teams from each sub-group will be allocated to a single-elimination bracket based on random allocation.
Teams will be competing directly with each other on a Best of 1 (BO1) or Best of 3 (BO3) (depending on scale of competition) format, with the aim of performing better than the opponents. The Grand Finals will be in a Best of 5 (BO5) format. The winning team will proceed to the next round of the bracket, while the losing team will be eliminated.
- (Actual bracket formats will be released nearer to tournament dates)
Live Scheduling & Results Update
Check out your next exciting match here, or when to cheer for your friend’s robots!
Stay tuned for our release closer to the actual tournament dates!