Robo Marathon is a robotics competition built to show what local innovators can do with autonomous technology. Startups, companies, universities, research institutions and independent robotics teams enter robots that race a set course on their own, with no one at the controls. The judges look at speed, navigation, reliability and the engineering behind each machine. The race is also a stage. Every team that makes the final shows its technology to a live audience at Founders Fair, meets investors and industry leaders, and gets seen by people looking for their next partner.