Robotics Merit Badge
Learn robot safety, explore how robots move and sense the world, and design a robot project you can explain to a counselor.
What this badge covers
Scouts work through the course requirements in order, review key ideas, and prepare to explain what they learned with real examples during counselor review.
Badge summary
Robotics Merit Badge introduces Scouts to how robots sense, move, and perform tasks in the real world. Scouts explore safety, robot types, major robotics fields, design and build a robot or subsystem, and reflect on competitions, careers, and hobbies that connect engineering with hands-on problem solving.
What Scouts should be ready to do
- Learn how the badge topic affects everyday life and modern technology.
- Practice safe, responsible, and ethical use of digital tools and information.
- Work through guided activities in sequence and save your progress by course.
- Prepare to discuss your work with a merit badge counselor.
Ready to begin?
Start the guided merit badge path and work through each requirement in order.