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Fasinating machines. I think Veritasium made a video about them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw
It's a fun watch if you are at all interested in robots. He goes through the evolution of the competition and some of the tech breakthroughs that have impacted it.
https://www.firstinspires.org/programs/fll/
It's the entry level competition from the same people who make the competition with those 2m tall robots.
I participated in their mid level one (18 inch / half meter cube size, metal parts) when I was in high school.
Nationals is going on in Houston this weekend. A local robotics club here flew there on Spirit.
They're supposed to fly back to O'Hare tomorrow. Kind of wonder what they're going to do.
Is BotBall still a thing? They had that (waaay) back when I was in high school, at least.
probably
Probably not any big professional ones, but there tends to be regional educational focused competitions in this style