The Final Round

The 4th Kibo Robot Programming Challenge: Report on the Results of the Final Round On October 21, 2023, JAXA held the 4th Kibo Robot Programming Challenge (Kibo-RPC) Final Round Event. 10 representative teams (Table 1), who had won the countries/region preliminary round, competed with programs they created to demonstrate the accuracy of their laser beams and the time it took to reach the goal of the competition by using NASA’s Astrobee. For the first time since Kibo-RPC began, the Final Round Event was held as a hybrid event at the JAXA Tsukuba Space Center and online, with 5 teams participating in the event at the Tsukuba Space Center.