This past weekend our teams competed at the WRO South Africa National Final — and came home with three medals: 2nd in RoboMission Senior, 3rd in RoboMission Elementary, and 3rd in Explorer Prime. (If you missed it, the full results are here.)
But Nationals isn't just a competition floor — it's also part exhibition, with robotics companies showing off what's happening at the cutting edge. This year that meant a Boston Dynamics Spot quadruped and a full-size dancing humanoid, both brought along by MCM Robotics. Our team couldn't resist filming a bit of it, so here's what was wandering around between rounds.
Boston Dynamics' Spot, walking the floor at Nationals.
And Then It Started Dancing
A few metres away, a humanoid robot was putting on its own show — moving to music with the crowd (including a few of our own students) gathered around. It's a genuinely impressive piece of engineering, and a fun reminder of where robotics is headed at the very top end of the industry.
Spot and the humanoid, sharing the floor at WRO South Africa Nationals 2026.
To be clear: this isn't something our students built — it's demo hardware from MCM Robotics, on-site as part of the show. Our teams' medals came from LEGO-based robots they built and coded themselves, which is exactly the point of WRO.
Why It's Worth Sharing Anyway
It's easy to draw a straight line from a ten-year-old debugging a LEGO robot in our Robotics Army class to the kind of engineering on display in a machine like Spot. Every robot on that floor — from the simplest RoboMission build to an industrial quadruped — runs on the same fundamentals: sensors, code, motors, and a lot of trial and error. That's exactly what we teach from day one.
If moments like this are the kind of thing that gets your child curious about robotics, that curiosity is the whole starting point. A free trial class is where it usually begins.
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