The VEX AI Robotics Competition uses autonomous robots and technologies such as VEX GPS, VEX LINK and AI vision. Each team designs and builds two robots to cooperate. The official overview permits 3D-printed and machined parts, custom electronics and no motor quantity limit. The current Override v2.1 manual contains the season's AI rules.
Eligibility: The manual links the Student Eligibility Policy, updated October 27, 2026. It requires actual age 14 or older for VEX AI and includes participants through postsecondary education. Each team has at least one eligible student. The general overview's high-school/college description is less specific than this policy.
Registration, checked November 4, 2026: The team wizard lists 2026–2027 Override. Team registration is separate from local event registration; no universal season cutoff or current AI season-registration fee was visible in the public wizard. The former $200 US team figure remains unconfirmed for AI.
For example, the official Robolabs AI event in Dublin, California, is January 9, 2027, with registration due January 2 and payment due December 19, 2026. The listing also says registered teams without payment or a purchase order four weeks before the event will be removed unless specially arranged. That relative removal condition differs from its December 19 payment-date row, so the last permissible payment date is uncertain. Its $395 charge and published conditions apply only to that event. The listing labels the December payment time EDT and the January registration time EST; no universal cutoff clock is asserted. AI championship dates were not verified from the checked sources.