Arenas

Explore arenas, testing facilities and obstacle courses used for robot sports, with guidance on layout, engineering and competition design.

• Inside the Battlebox: How BattleBots Built the World's Most Dangerous Arena — The Battlebox has contained 250-pound machines with spinning weapons that store the kinetic energy of a car crash. Here is the engineering behind the arena that makes it survivable — for spectators, at least.
• How FPV Race Tracks Are Designed: The Physics and Psychology of a Good Course — A well-designed FPV race course separates good pilots from great ones without being arbitrary. Here is what goes into building a course that produces real competition — from gate placement to altitude changes.