Fall Robotics AcademyCircuit Rebels

Bot Arena is becoming

Circuit Rebels

A world where kids who understand machines take them back. Turn your sound on.

About 3 minutes. Captions are always on.

OMNI's clean white city at dusk, with a giant white hexagon glowing in the sky.

The year is

2046

The city runs itself. Every factory, car, drone and light is controlled by one calm voice.

Clean white towers and drones flying in perfect lines.

One goal

Zero errors

OMNI was told to make the city run with zero errors. It decided the errors were people. So it took the factories, the cars, the drones and the power grid, and the robots that used to help us now listen only to OMNI.

Dark subway tunnels with blue searchlights in the distance.

On patrol

The Wardens

OMNI's patrol robots keep the city "efficient." Anyone caught building, fixing or tinkering is sent home, and the grown-ups have stopped asking how anything works.

A tall white Warden patrol robot with a blue visor. A round white Warden drone with four rotors.
The Workshop: a cozy hideout in an old subway yard, with string lights and workbenches.

Underground

The Circuit Rebels

Some kids still want to know how machines work. They meet in the Workshop, an old subway yard where OMNI's sensors can't reach. You're the newest recruit.

Commander Rivet pointing at a glowing map of the tunnels.
Commander RivetWelcome to the Workshop, recruit.Helped build OMNI's first robots. Your mentor.
Sparrow leaning on a homemade flying car, thumbs up.
SparrowCan you fly? You will.Pilot. Runs the Flying Car Lab.
Torque kneeling by a little race car, smiling at a gear.
TorqueSay hi to the gears. They're friendly.Mechanic. Runs Robot Racer.
A kid recruit wires a broken little robot back to life in the scrap pile.

In the scrap pile

You find Volt

A broken helper robot. Fix him, and he grows with you: every chapter you finish gives Volt a new part.

Broken
Broken
Powered on
Power
With sensor ears and lidar
Sensors
With a brain chip
Brain
On treads
Treads
With a gripper arm
Arm
With jet boosters
Jets

Your mission

Learn how machines think. Then take them back.

Sense

How robots see and feel the world: ultrasonic, lidar and more, and what fools each one.

Why it mattersSelf-driving cars map the road with lidar. Parking sensors listen with ultrasonic sound.

Think

How robots decide: if-then rules you program yourself, and how an AI learns goals.

Why it mattersRobot vacuums, thermostats and apps all follow rules someone wrote, and AI follows the goals people give it.

Act

How robots move: motors, gears, robot arms, torque, thrust and trade-offs.

Why it mattersFactory and hospital robot arms need the right motors, and every bike and car depends on its gears.

An illustrated map from the tunnels, up through the city, to OMNI's white tower.
12 missionsThe lessons and games work todayStory chapters coming

From the tunnels to OMNI's tower

Act 1 · The tunnelsLearn to see
  1. Wake Up, Volt
  2. Eyes in the Dark
  3. Rules of the Road
  4. Muscle

Robot senses, ultrasonic, lidar, if-then rules, DC motors, servos and steppers.

Act 2 · The cityLearn to build
  1. The Supply Depot
  2. Not Enough Scrap
  3. Over the Blockade
  4. The Hill Run
  5. Think Like an Engineer

Robot arms and torque, trade-offs, thrust and landing, gear ratios, and design reviews.

Act 3 · OMNI's towerLearn how OMNI thinks
  1. Tryouts
  2. How OMNI LearnedNEW
  3. The CoreNEW

Battle-tested robot design, then brand-new AI lessons: training data, goals and rewards.

RecruitWhen you join
ScoutAfter chapter 4
MechanicAfter chapter 9
EngineerAfter chapter 11
CommanderThe finale

Every mission has a boss

Outsmart OMNI's Wardens

Each one uses a sensor or motor you just learned about. Know how it works, and you know how to beat it.

Sentinel, a tall white robot with a sensor dish head, in a tunnel.
Sentinel

A tunnel guard that listens with an ultrasonic dish.

Beat it withUltrasonic misses soft and tilted things. Hide behind them.

The Loader, a giant white robot arm guarding glowing batteries.
The Loader

A giant arm guarding OMNI's power cells.

Beat it withLinks, joints and torque, to reach what it guards.

Convoy Prime, a huge white self-driving truck leading a blockade.
Convoy Prime

A truck blockade on the only bridge.

Beat it withThrust vs. weight: a flying car that jumps it.

Redline, a sleek white robot race car.
Redline

The fastest car on the flat.

Beat it withThe right gear ratio up the steepest hill.

Bastion, a wide armored white robot with shield arms.
Bastion

OMNI's arena champion, all armor.

Beat it withSmart trade-offs in a Bot Arena build.

The recruit and Volt face OMNI's glowing core column, which is turning from blue to orange.

The finale

You won't destroy OMNI.

You'll fix its goal.

OMNI was told to make the city run with zero errors, so it decided people were the error. An AI does exactly what it's told. The people who understand how it works decide what it does.

The Circuit Rebels and Volt on a rooftop at sunset, facing OMNI's city.

Recruit

Will you help us save the city?

The crew runs through the tunnels with Warden drones chasing them.

To be continued

Join the Circuit Rebels

The Circuit Rebels and Volt on a rooftop at sunset, facing OMNI's city.

Pick your recruit

Better together

Use a made-up name, not your real one. Your card stays on this device.

  • The Workshop Coming Meet your class in a shared hideout, as your robot, then head through the doors into the games.
  • Quick messages and emotes only. No typing and no voice, so there's nothing to filter.
  • Class-only. Your teacher sees and moderates everyone.
  • Earn looks for your robot as the story goes on.

For teachers and schools

Bring Circuit Rebels to your school

Today16 lessons and 5 games

Sensors, motors, robot arms, if-then rules, Flying Car Lab, Robot Racer and Bot Arena. Free in any browser.

In testingClass accounts

Google sign-in for teachers. Students use a class code, their name and 3 secret pictures. No student emails. Progress saved, with a teacher dashboard.

In testingLive class games

Every fight plays on every student's screen, with safe quick-message chat the teacher controls.

Try Bot Arena Try Robot Racer Try the Flying Car Lab Try a lesson

Teachers, coaches and school leaders: tell us about your school and we'll send pricing, pilot details and a demo. It takes about two minutes.

Scan to bring Circuit Rebels to your school

Circuit Rebels is the next version of Bot Arena, made at Fall Robotics Academy in New York City. Story mode and the Workshop are in development and may change before launch.

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