Turkey's first and most established organisation of robotic competitions 17th  International METU Robotics Days, taking place on 22-23 February in STM's primary sponsor.

Middle East Technical University Robot Society set the completion for the first time in 2002 as Robot Days, and it became an international completion in 2008. The competion will be held at METU Culture and Congress Centre (KKM).

METU Robot Days aim to popularise robotics in Turkey. There are several categories for robots to compete: search and rescue, garbage collecting, maze solving, autonomous unmanned aircraft-autopilot, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle-computer vision. In general, 735 robots will compete.

In the 17th International Robot Days, a total of 85 thousand TL prize contestants awaits in seven different categories.