LEBOB
Robots that compete. Ideas that inspire.
Robots that compete. Ideas that inspire.
Won national + state competitions in First Lego League.
Built and coded a robot to complete missions reliably.
SoftSense, our innovation project, won a prize at the 2026 Korea Open.
Lebob is an independent, not-for-profit robotics team based in Perth, Western Australia. We compete internationally in FIRST Tech Challenge as team 29550 and in FIRST LEGO League as team 3236. We engineer robots, research soft-robotic mechanisms, and ship our work as documentation others can learn from.
We are not a school team. Most of us attend Perth Modern School, but the school does not run or fund us. We started Lebob ourselves and run it under Lebob Robotics, an unincorporated not-for-profit association with its own ABN. We register, raise our own sponsorship and make our own calls. More on how we are organised →
Eight members, two mentors, one shared workshop. Our goal is turning ideas into real, working prototypes through teamwork, and then sharing them with the rest of the engineering world.
"the workshop is home."
We are currently building for the 2026–27 FIRST Tech Challenge BIOBUZZ season. Before that we competed in the FLL Unearthed season and built SoftSense, our innovation project: a soft gripper for ROV manipulation. It won a prize at the 2026 Korea Open, and the full engineering record is now public on GitHub. The goal: software, mechanisms, and a team that work well and feel right.
Our 2026–27 FIRST Tech Challenge build as team 29550. Chassis, scoring mechanisms and autonomous routines for the BIOBUZZ game. Design notes and code will be published here and on GitHub as the season runs.
Spike Prime build with custom attachments tuned to the 2025/26 Unearthed game. Modular mounts, calibrated drive base, and autonomous mission programs that score reliably under competition pressure.
Our self-sensing soft gripper for ROV manipulation, prize winner at the 2026 Korea Open. Fin Ray TPU fingers, a flooded gear drive, and grip force read from the motor's current. The CAD, FEA, firmware and docs are all public.
Living documentation of our season · robot design rationale, code architecture, attachment library, and the research notes behind every iteration we ship to the field.
Mission code and autonomous routines for our 2025/26 robot. Open-source on GitHub. Pull requests welcome from other teams looking to share strategy or tools.
Full CAD models for the robot, attachments, and SoftSense innovation prototypes. Live Onshape document · every revision logged.
Competition photos, build sessions, prototype iterations, and the moments between. The season as it actually happened.
Five sponsorship tiers from $500 up, plus mentorship and collaboration with other teams. Drop us a line · we run lean and we ship.
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