Made for the 2026 World Robot Olympiad · Future Innovators, Senior Category

Send it into the dark.

A recon rover for places people should not enter. It drives in, looks around, and reports back out loud.

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The run

Drive in. Look. Report.

One operator, one screen. The rover does the walking into the part nobody wants to walk into.

The console camera panel showing a live frame from inside a chamber.

Recon run

Send it down a corridor or into a collapsed void on a routine that keeps running even if the link drops.

The console showing live distance, temperature, humidity and heading.

Live telemetry

Distance, temperature, humidity and heading stream back the whole way, alongside the camera feed.

Sage reading the telemetry aloud and calling the entry status.

Sage speaks

The onboard voice names what the camera is looking at, out loud, in English or Spanish.

The session report listing the mission, the readings and every finding.

Findings log

Anything worth a second look is saved with its frame, so the run can be walked back through afterwards.

Saved framesDrag or scroll sideways →

Saved camera frame: a pale carved figure standing at the foot of a painted cave wall. — **Logged · figure**A carved figure at the foot of the wall, saved for the operator.

Saved camera frame: animals and marks painted across a cave chamber wall. — **Logged · wall**Painted animals across the chamber, flagged mid-run.

Saved camera frame: a dark corner of the chamber running back past the light. — **Logged · void**Corner runs back further than the camera reaches.

Saved camera frame: a fallen slab over standing water on the chamber floor. — **Logged · water**Wet floor under a fallen slab.

Saved camera frame: spiral carvings worked into a rock face. — **Logged · carving**Spiral work cut into the rock face.

Saved camera frame: painted figures across the upper wall of a chamber. — **Logged · painted**Painted figures across the upper wall.

Saved camera frame: rubble and dropped material across the route. — **Logged · debris**Rubble and dropped material across the route.

Saved camera frame: pale shapes lying on the chamber floor. — **Logged · shapes**Pale shapes on the floor, flagged mid-run.

Saved camera frame: a cut block resting against the chamber wall. — **Logged · block**Cut block resting against the wall.

Saved camera frame: a bright light source at the far end of the passage. — **Logged · light**Light at the far end of the passage.

Pricing

It arrives ready to drive.

Every Blackout is built, wired, flashed and tuned by us, running our own software. You unbox it and send it in.

Blackout · field unit

$7,500One rover, built, flashed and tuned.
AI costs (Sage) not included.

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Chassis built, wired and labelled
Boards flashed, paired and sealed
Turn timings tuned on a real floor
Sage set up in English and Spanish
Console and BLK routine editor included
Twelve months of firmware updates

A patrol routine open in the BLK editor.

Competition fiction: Blackout is a WRO 2026 Future Innovators project, not a company. The prices above are part of the pitch. Nothing here is for sale, and the robot, the code and the camera frames are real.

Roadmap

Three rebuilds to get here.

Each version threw away something the last one was proud of. Pick a stop on the route.

Sheet 01 · route V1 → V4 · not to scale

BuiltPlanned

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Shaping archeology with robotics.

The dark part of the map is the part worth looking at.

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