Hebocon: The Best Worst Robot Competition

Most of the robot competitions we cover are serious business. Roboticists spend months (or years) and thousands (or millions) of dollars building and programming their robots to navigate through simulated disaster areas, solve complicated tasks that most people don't really understand, or just beat the stuffing out of each other. Building the best robot you can is difficult and stressful. You know what isn't difficult or stressful? Building the worst robot you can, and then seeing if it can manage to be even more terrible than a bunch of other robots trying to do the same thing.