# Robotics competitions in India: where to start

> How to prepare for robotics competitions in India: start with the guide, build a competition robot and use the free project documents.

Canonical: https://roboticsengineering.in/competitions/ | Published: 2026-11-03 | Updated: 2026-11-03

**Check each competition official site for dates, rules and fees; they change every year.** This page does not list dates because they would go out of date. It collects the guides that help you prepare.

## Start here

- [Robotics competitions in India: WRO, FIRST, Robocon and how to enter](https://roboticsengineering.in/robotics-competitions-india/)
- [Starting a robotics club in college](https://roboticsengineering.in/robotics-club-college-guide-india/)

## Build a competition robot

- [PID Line Follower Explained, With Real Tuning Steps](https://roboticsengineering.in/pid-control-line-follower-explained/)
- [PID tuning for robot motion: a practical method](https://roboticsengineering.in/pid-tuning-robot-motion/)
- [Build a robot under ₹2,000 in India: three builds that work](https://roboticsengineering.in/robot-under-2000-india/)
- [Arduino vs Raspberry Pi for robotics: which should you buy?](https://roboticsengineering.in/arduino-vs-raspberry-pi-robotics/)

## Tools

- [Wheel speed calculator](https://roboticsengineering.in/wheel-speed-rpm-calculator/)
- [Battery pack calculator](https://roboticsengineering.in/battery-pack-series-parallel-calculator/)
- [Encoder odometry calculator](https://roboticsengineering.in/encoder-counts-per-wheel-distance-calculator/)
- [Error library](https://roboticsengineering.in/fix/)

## Documents

- [Free Library: report, viva and test log templates](https://roboticsengineering.in/free-library/)

Last reviewed: November 2026. Guides are added in waves; costs and figures in them are illustrations, not quotations.