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Smart City Robotics Competition 2025
23-25 September 2025
CENTRE:MK Milton Keynes, UK
Free Entry for Spectators, Teams & Exhibitors
The Smart City Robotics Competition 2025, the flagship event in MK Tech Week, will involve team challenges, a tech exhibition, an evening symposium and robot demonstrations. You can participate or come along, the event is free and open to the public in centre:mk. The competition will run from Tuesday 23 September with the final in the afternoon of Thursday 25 September.
You will see below the 5 Episodes that teams of university students and industry engineers will be tackling. You can sign up as a team or contact us to join a team. The challenges involve social interactions in a coffee shop or as a home assistant; mobile manipulation to open a door, or pack shopping; and flying drones for emergency medicine.
The Exhibitors and Sponsors will be able to present during the event to the tech community and open to the public. This includes evening event opportunities with policy makers and VIP engagement, an exciting way to raise the profile of emerging technology and robotics. Milton Keynes hosted UK Government AI Safety Summit in 2023, is the 2nd fastest growing city in the UK and the 8th City in the UK for Tech Innovation.
The previous 2023 event received global news coverage by 30 individual news articles. The competition is organised by Smart City Consultancy, supported by Milton Keynes City Council and the centre:mk, and is part of the European Robotics League, from euRobotics.
