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Descend. Survive. Claim the vault.
Nine floors. Autonomous descent. Only one machine reaches the vault.
19 Feb 2027 – 21 Feb 2027
· The Undercroft, IIIT Allahabad
Open. Teams of 2 to 4. One machine per team.
₹5,00,000 prize pool
128 of 128 slots left
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No surprises on the day
Four weeks before, as a versioned document. Every later change is listed with its date, so nobody builds against a rule that moved.
Team of 2 to 4. Dimensional and safety scrutineering on arrival, and you get told what to fix rather than just failed.
Track time before it counts. Every team gets the same allocation, drawn by lot.
Scores shown live. The rubric is the same document you were sent four weeks earlier.
Written feedback per team, whether you placed or not. This is the part most events skip and the part teams remember.
From the archive · highlights
Three phases on one course. The hard part was never the driving: every machine ran micro-ROS on an ESP32 and decided nothing for itself. At the entry to each phase the team had to publish that phase's behaviour from a laptop running ROS, so the vehicle was steered by off-board compute over UDP while it drove.
Track only. Follow the line end to end, nothing in the way, and a clean lap or nothing.
No line to hold. An obstacle course crossed on sensing alone, with the behaviour for it published before the run began.
Both at once: hold the line, leave it to clear what is standing on it, and find it again on the other side.
Everything we have run
Kept in full, including the editions that were small. A history you can check is worth more than a number you cannot.
Colleges and institutions
We bring the arena, the scoring, the scrutineering and the marshals. You bring the room and the teams.
Questions
AIRENA-X is Airoot's flagship robotics competition. It has nine floors and an autonomous descent, and only one machine reaches the vault. It runs from 19 to 21 February 2027 at The Undercroft, IIIT Allahabad.
Yes, registration for AIRENA-X is open. Teams enter through the Enter AIRENA-X button.
Rules are published four weeks before the event as a versioned document. Every later change is listed with its date, and the judging rubric is the same document teams were sent.
Each team goes through dimensional and safety scrutineering and is told what to fix rather than just failed. Then come practice rounds with equal track time drawn by lot, and judged rounds with live scores.
Yes. Every team gets written feedback after the event, whether or not it placed.
AIRENA-2026 was the first edition, held at IIIT Allahabad, with three phases on one course: line following, obstacle avoidance, and line following with obstacles. Every machine ran micro-ROS on an ESP32, and teams published each phase's behaviour from a laptop running ROS over UDP.
Yes. Airoot brings the arena, scoring, scrutineering and marshals, and the host brings the room and the teams. Use the Enquire about hosting button to get in touch.