NextGen Expo 2026 - In-Person Hackathon
Build. Compete. Innovate. Win.
Join us in person at NextGen Expo 2026, Bengaluru, for five hands-on technology challenges. Bring your team, build your solution, and compete with innovators from across the country.
🤖 1. AI & Robotics
Build an intelligent robotic system that can sense, understand, decide and act to solve a real-world problem using AI and robotics.
AI & ROBOTICS - 4 ROBOTICS CHALLENGES
Put your robotics skills to the test across four exciting challenges designed around autonomous navigation, problem-solving, precision and robot control.
🏁 Line Follower
Build a robot that can autonomously follow a designated track with speed and precision.
🌽 Maize Challenge
Navigate the maze, make the right decisions and reach the destination using your robot’s sensing and control capabilities.
🪨 7 Stones
Build and control a robot to pick, move and rebuild the stone structure while completing the challenge within the given constraints.
⚽ Robot Football
Design a competitive robot capable of finding, controlling and pushing the ball while playing against other robots.
Ai & Robotics innovation hackathon
Participants can choose one of four AI & Robotics challenges and develop a solution based on the selected problem statement.
Challenge 1 — AI
Build an intelligent AI-based solution to address a real-world problem.
Challenge 2 — Robotics
Develop a robotic system capable of sensing, decision-making and performing a useful task.
Challenge 3 — AI + Robotics
Combine AI intelligence with robotics to create an autonomous solution for a real-world problem.
🥽 2. AR/VR
Create an immersive AR/VR experience that solves a real-world problem or introduces a new way to learn, interact or experience something.
🚁 3. Drone Challenge
Test your drone skills through two rounds:
- Round 1: Pick & place a 1–5 kg payload
- Round 2: Navigate through an obstacle course with precision and control.
🖨️ 4. 3D Printing
Design and 3D-print a functional solution to a given engineering problem. Think, design, print, test and improve.
🎬 5. AI-Based Films
Create an original 3–7 minute short film using AI meaningfully across storytelling, visuals, animation, sound or post-production.
📍 In-Person: Tripura Vasini Palace Grounds, Bengaluru
📅 23–25 October 2026
Choose your challenge. Build your solution. Take the stage.
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