This paper presents a systematic mapping literature review about the mobile robotics
competitions that took place over the last few decades in order to obtain an overview of the main
objectives, target public, challenges, technologies used and final application area to show how these
competitions have been contributing to education. In the review we found 673 papers from 5 different
databases and at the end of the process, 75 papers were classified to extract all the relevant information
using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) method.
More than 50 mobile robotics competitions were found and it was possible to analyze most of the
competitions in detail in order to answer the research questions, finding the main goals, target public,
challenges, technologies and application area, mainly in education.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
