Aside from aiming to popularize robot sumo, which is a sport consisting of two robots trying to push each other towards the edge of the arena, the team wants to push the competition to the next level.

[David] over at Pololu programmed a mini-sumo robot, Zumo Red, with some extra smarts. The basic rules of sumo robotics is exactly like human sumo – push your competitor out of the ring. [David ...

[Jeremy] really wants to compete in some sumo bot wrestling, and in order to have robotic sumo wrestling one needs to make some robots, which is what [Jeremy’s] build log is all about. The fr… ...

People can enter any bot that's smaller than 10x10 centimeters and weighs less than 500 grams. The robots go head-to-head in a sumo-style match, trying to push each other out of the battle ring.

Sumo robot wrestling is like Battlebots with less destruction, but that lack of robo-gore is supplanted by a different kind of thinking and preparation that goes into each face-off.

The fate of robot Sumo wrestlers was taken into the hands of about 30 Girl Scouts Sunday afternoon. Girls from a variety of troops participated in the Sumo wrestler robotic battle and the build a ...