Lebob is an independent, not-for-profit robotics team from Perth, Western Australia. We are not run by a school. We compete in FIRST Tech Challenge as team 29550 and in FIRST LEGO League as team 3236. In 2025 we won the FIRST LEGO League National Championship West, then competed at the 2026 Korea Open Invitational in South Korea.
We build and program competition robots, and we run an engineering research project alongside the robot each season. Our current build is our FIRST Tech Challenge BIOBUZZ robot for the 2026–27 season, as team 29550. Our most recent completed project is SoftSense, a soft gripper for recovering fragile artefacts from the seafloor, built during the 2025/26 FIRST LEGO League season.
We publish the work instead of sitting on it. Every document from the 2025/26 season is readable in full on this site, alongside the original PDFs, and our code sits in the public Lebob-Robotics GitHub organisation. Another FLL team can read our robot code, our website projects and our pathfinding experiments without asking us first.
Lebob is not a school team. Most of our members attend Perth Modern School, but the school does not run, own or fund us. The students started Lebob and run it under Lebob Robotics, an unincorporated not-for-profit association we set up ourselves, with its own ABN 41 535 175 584. We register for competitions in our own name, raise our own sponsorship, hold our own funds and make our own decisions.
Our members go to Perth Modern and no school stands behind the team. Descriptions of us as Perth Modern students describe where we go during the week. Lebob Robotics runs the team, and we run Lebob Robotics.
| Identifier | Value |
|---|---|
| FIRST Tech Challenge team number | 29550 |
| FIRST LEGO League team number | 3236 |
| 2026 Korea Open Invitational entry code | KOI34 |
| ABN (Lebob Robotics) | 41 535 175 584 |
We compete in two FIRST programmes and carry a separate number in each. 29550 is our FIRST Tech Challenge number, which is the number we compete under now in the 2026–27 BIOBUZZ season. 3236 is our FIRST LEGO League number, and it appears as the running header, TEAM LEBOB #3236, throughout our internationals robot design documentation.
Three events in the 2025/26 Unearthed season, from a Perth regional to a world invitational in South Korea.
| Season | Event | Location | Date | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 Unearthed | FIRST LEGO League regional tournament | Aquinas College, Salter Point, Perth | 30 November 2025 | Advanced to the National Championship |
| 2025/26 Unearthed | FIRST LEGO League National Championship West | Curtin University, Perth | 13 December 2025 | Western Australian National Champions |
| 2025/26 Unearthed | FIRST LEGO League Korea Open Invitational | Jeonju, South Korea | 3 to 5 July 2026 | Prize for the SoftSense innovation project |
The season ran from a regional tournament hosted by Aquinas College in Salter Point through to the National Championship West, the Western Australian national championship, run at Curtin University's Bentley campus each December. Winning that is what took us to Jeonju, where more than 50 teams from over 45 countries competed across three days at Jeonju National University of Education.
We built the Korea Open game plan up to a maximum of 545 points across seven runs, grouping missions by proximity so the robot clears several in one trip. The code is Python on PyBricks: a drive base class, a mission control class that renders the hub menu, and missions registered through a decorator. The repository carries over 500 commits.
Earlier seasons we kept no proper record of our testing, and our robot design journal says so. This season we kept a logbook, which gave us proof of what we tried and what changed as a result. That logbook is the run testing log published on this site.
SoftSense is our innovation project: a soft, sensing gripper that mounts onto an existing ROV manipulator arm so archaeologists can lift fragile artefacts off the seabed without crushing them. The fingers are passive Fin Ray trusses printed in TPU that wrap around whatever shape they meet, and the gripper reads its own grip force from the actuator's motor current rather than from any sensor at the fingertip.
Working subsea engineers, a practising maritime archaeologist and three Western Australian subsea operators reviewed it, and it won a prize at the 2026 Korea Open. Read the full write up, or go straight to the engineering documentation.
Lebob is an independent, not-for-profit robotics team from Perth, Western Australia. Most members attend Perth Modern School, which neither runs nor funds the team. Lebob is a community team the students started and run themselves under Lebob Robotics, an unincorporated not-for-profit association with its own ABN. The team competes in FIRST LEGO League and FIRST Tech Challenge, building competition robots and running an engineering research project alongside the robot each season.
No. Most of our members attend Perth Modern School, but the school does not run, own or fund the team. The students started Lebob and fund it through Lebob Robotics, an unincorporated not-for-profit association we set up ourselves, with its own ABN (41 535 175 584). We register for competitions, raise our own sponsorship and make our own decisions as a community team. Our members go to Perth Modern and no school stands behind the team.
Lebob is based in Perth, Western Australia. Most of its members attend Perth Modern School, though the students run the team independently of any school and compete at Western Australian events, including the regional tournament at Aquinas College in Salter Point and the National Championship West at Curtin University's Bentley campus.
Lebob is FIRST LEGO League team 3236 and FIRST Tech Challenge team 29550. FIRST issues a separate number for each programme. At the 2026 Korea Open Invitational the organisers also allocated the entry code KOI34, which applied to that event only and is not a team number.
Lebob won the FIRST LEGO League National Championship West at Curtin University on 13 December 2025, taking the Western Australian national title in the UNEARTHED season. That result took the team to the Korea Open Invitational in Jeonju, South Korea, where its innovation project SoftSense won a prize.
SoftSense is Lebob's innovation project: a 3D printed soft gripper that bolts onto an existing ROV manipulator arm so archaeologists can lift fragile artefacts off the seabed without crushing them. It has no force sensor. It reads grip force from the actuator's own motor current instead.
SoftSense reads the actuator's motor current, multiplies by the torque constant, and traces that back through the drivetrain to recover an estimated tip force. That removes every wire and connector from the fingertip, which is the part hardest to seal underwater, and the same channel also protects the printed gears.
Yes. All eight competition documents from the 2025/26 season are published in full on this site alongside the original PDFs, the robot code and the SoftSense CAD, simulation and firmware are open source on GitHub, and the repositories sit in the public Lebob-Robotics organisation.
Lebob competes in FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST LEGO League Challenge. The current season is FIRST Tech Challenge BIOBUZZ, 2026–27, as team 29550. The 2025/26 FIRST LEGO League season was UNEARTHED, themed on archaeology, which is why the team's innovation project addresses recovering fragile artefacts from shipwrecks and the seafloor.
Email team@lebob.com.au. There are five sponsorship tiers starting from $500, plus in kind support such as equipment, materials and professional mentorship, which is recognised at the tier matching its value. All sponsorships are invoiced under our ABN.
Email team@lebob.com.au.
Lebob, FTC & FLL Robotics Team.
ABN 41 535 175 584
Perth, Western Australia
If you are interested in backing the team, the sponsorship tiers are public, and our current sponsors and Founding Supporters are listed on this site.