The 2011 World Robot Olympiad (WRO) Competition is a worldwide robotics competition. Participants must progress through a number of qualifying stages before they can be selected to participate in the 2011 WRO final. Individuals/teams interested in participating in the competition should direct enquiries to the National Organizers located in their respective countries. If there is no National Organizer listed for your country, please direct your enquiries to wro2011.info@wrouae.ae

Participants in the 2011 WRO final must abide by the General Rules of the competition, focusing on the category they are participating in and any Specific Rules associated with that category. The Specific Rules contain information that generally changes each year, such as the theme, specific challenges and information about special exhibition competitions. All rules and mission playing fields are available for download in the "Downloads" section under "Media Centre".

Table of eligibility

• The number of teams a National Organizer may send to the international WRO competition depends on the total number of teams participating in the National WRO competition in the country in question. See left column in table! 
• A team may participate in Regular Category or Open Category or Robot Football.
• Any student may participate in one team only!
• The numbers in the table are max per age group and cannot be transferred from one age group to another!
• The host country may have double number of teams in all age groups.

If the number of teams at national level is less than 20, then three teams may participate as “Guest teams”. Such teams will not be ranked!