Robot battle leagues are multiplying so fast, you'd think the metallic beasties were capable of reproducing on their own.
So what makes NRL different? For starters, NRL is the only league formalizing ties between competitor teams and manufacturing partners. Makes sense, right? If you're going to be machining parts and engineering a 'bot from scratch, you need someone on board who does that sort of thing all the time.
The bonus, for both sides, is that those ties have a way of leading to other things. Competitors get turned on to the career possibilities in manufacturing. Manufacturers build valuable industry-school links by helping competitors engineer a lean, mean, fighting machine. Everybody wins, regardless of the result in the arena.
NRL also is focused exclusively on students, from middle school to college. While we'd love to see our competitors on TV one day, duking it out in professional bouts, our focus is on high-school teams who design, build, compete, learn—and build again.
