The ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (ABU Robocon) is founded in 2002 by Asia-Pasific Broadcasting Union which is an Asian Ocenian college robot competition. The competition aims to create friendship among young people with similar interests who will lead their countries in the 21st century, as well as help advance engineering and broadcasting technologies in the region. All the participants are competed to make a robot that can complete a task within set of periods of time.

Each year has different format since the format is depends on host. To build the robots, contestants, who are restricted to be undergraduate students, must possess rich knowledge in programming, mechanical design and electronic circuit design.