Current Season | Robotics Innovation Challenge

The 2025 Winter Season is here!

RIC 2025 Winter. In full force.

The Robotics Innovation Challenge (RIC) is an international healthcare-themed robotics competition, co-organized by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and the NUS Business Analytics Centre. It collaborates with the NUS Advanced Robotics Centre and the NUS Department of Biomedical Engineering as technical partners. As part of the renowned SHADE event, RIC is also officially integrated into the Singapore Robotics Games, Singapore’s largest robotics competition for tertiary students, with an impressive 32-year legacy.

Co-Organizers

Technical Partners

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) - [Summer 2025]

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!

RIC Code Mania - [Coming Soon]

Get ready to unleash your coding creativity at RIC Code Mania, the ultimate coding showdown for young innovators! Dive into exciting challenges, solve problems, and showcase your programming skills as you compete to create the next big breakthrough in robotics and technology. Coming soon in the future!

... and many more games in collaboration with our global partners!

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).

For each talent category & game:

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).

For each talent category:

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 Updates

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!

RIC is organized as a satellite event under the NUS SHADE Datathon & EXPO. RIC is also part of the Singapore Robotic Games (SRG).