Fx4 is now open to any team, school or institution in the world
From now on, the program can be licensed by any organization that wants to bring robotics, entrepreneurship and youth leadership to its own region.
There are two ways to use Fx4. One is free, for those who commit to giving the benefit back to their community. The other is full implementation, over a full school year. Both are described on this page.
The program
Fx4 is not a robotics tournament
Plenty of schools already run their own internal competition: build the robots, set a date, play the matches, hand out a trophy. Fx4 is not that.
Fx4 is a 30-hour training program organized around four areas: engineering, automation, management and marketing. Teams receive a kit, build and program an ESP32-controlled robot, and learn to structure themselves as a self-sustaining, financially independent organization. At the end, alongside the arena competition, teams present a portfolio of everything they produced to a panel of judges. The competition is a teaching tool, not the goal.
The four components
Affordable robotics kit
MDF structure controlled by an ESP32, designed for low cost, with no dependency on imported platforms.
Complete online course
Step-by-step content for students and coaches. The coach does not need to be a robotics specialist. That is what makes the program viable in schools with no robotics teacher.
Remote mentoring
Beginner teams connected to experienced athletes and volunteers.
Robocopa
The closing event. Arena matches plus project presentations to judges. Of the eight awards, only the Winning Alliance depends solely on robot performance. The others assess process, learning and community impact.
What nobody else includes
A robotics program becomes unworkable when the school cannot fund it. That is why the license includes what is normally left out: the Robocopa event organization manual, the sponsorship proposal templates we use ourselves, the cost breakdown per team and per event, and the sponsor reporting documentation.
You do not just get the game. You get the method to fund it.
The origin
Where this method comes from
Fx4 was created inside Robótica DHEL, with the Amigos Droids team, FTC 17792, which in 2026 won the Inspire Award at the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship — the first team from outside North America to win it in the history of the event. That same partnership gave rise to Instituto Amigos Droids, a non-profit whose purpose is to make robotics and entrepreneurship accessible to any young person, regardless of background.
1,398young people reached
169teams formed
15Robocopas held across 5 municipalities
10municipalities with participating schools
Choose your path
Two paths
The right path depends on what you want to do, not on the size of your budget.
Free license
I want to bring robotics to my region
For teams, NGOs and community groups that want to multiply access to robotics where they are. Free license of Fx4 1.0, in exchange for running one Robocopa open to the community.
Fx4 1.0 is the version we ran between 2025 and 2026: a short cycle of roughly eight weeks, with one game, ending in a Robocopa. This version is released at no license cost to any organization that accepts the conditions below.
What you receive
Access to the Fx4 1.0 platform, with all training content
Season Game Manual and full rules
Printing and fabrication files for the kit parts
Robocopa organization manual, from check-in to awards
Evaluation rubrics and judging sheets
Sponsorship proposal templates for local fundraising
Cost breakdown so you can build your own budget
What is not included
The license covers intellectual property: the right to use the Fx4 brand, the Robocopa brand, the game, the platform and the files. No materials are shipped. The Institute sends no kits, parts or components. You receive the purchase list and the fabrication files, and source the materials locally — electronics, MDF cutting and assembly.
Expect roughly 35 US dollars per team for the components alone. The figure varies with supplier, quantity and exchange rate, and excludes shipping and tools.
The conditions
Run at least one Robocopa in your region. The license exists to generate open events, not closed internal use.
Offer participation free of charge. You may raise sponsorship to cover kits and the event, including with our templates. What you may not do is charge the young people or the participating schools.
Use the brands and the game without alterations. The names Fx4 and Robocopa, the game rules and the visual identity are applied as received. This is not red tape: if every licensee changes the game, teams stop being comparable to one another and the Robocopa loses its meaning as a network. The Robocopa may carry a local name — Robocopa Alpha, for example. The Fx4 brand is used as it is.
A cap of five teams per school. The cap prevents a single institution from turning free material into its own commercial product.
Sign the commitment agreement. A simple document, sent by email right after you register.
If your intention is to run Fx4 as a permanent program inside your own school, with support throughout the year, the next path is yours.
Path 2
Fx4 Meets 2027, a full-year educational program
From 2027, Fx4 becomes a full school-year program: two phases, five Meets, two Robocopas and a new educational platform, with the Meets methodology built into the content.
The year at a glance
Phase 1 · first semester
Focus on the competition arena, technical training, robot construction and team organization. It ends with a Robocopa in the format we run today.
Phase 2 · second semester
Focus on entrepreneurship. Teams use the kits to create sellable products and the Robocopa becomes a product competition, in the style of a startup investment round.
The three tiers
Tier 1
Methodology
The complete Fx4 methodology, access to the digital content platform and monthly asynchronous online competitions, which we call Meets. Each month, teams from around the world compete against each other and receive AI-generated feedback on their performance in each area.
Tier 2
Methodology and mentoring
Everything in Tier 1, plus personalized mentoring with the team after each Meet, to review results and plan the next cycle.
Tier 3
Methodology, mentoring and AI assistant
Everything in Tier 2, plus an AI assistant trained on Fx4 content, available to coaches and students throughout the year.
Methodology, platform and MeetsPersonalized mentoringAI assistant
Pricing on request. Register your interest and we will get in touch.
Fx4 was designed to grow in depth, not only in number of participants. The eight-week cycle proved the model works at low cost. The annual program solves the next problem: discontinuity. A young person who goes through eight weeks has an experience. A young person who goes through a full school year, with five Meets and two Robocopas, builds a repertoire.
The artificial intelligence layer — automated feedback in Tier 1, a permanent assistant in Tier 3 — exists to solve the real bottleneck of scale: there are not enough human mentors in Brazil to support ten thousand teams. There are, if AI handles continuous follow-up and humans handle the decisive moments.
The Institute's goal is to reach 100,000 young people by 2030. Open licensing is the instrument.
Next step
Register your interest
Fill in the form below. You will receive a confirmation email within minutes, with the next steps for the path you chose.
Free path: commitment agreement and access to the platform.
2027 program: a 30-minute conversation to understand your situation.
