The ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest, commonly known as ABU Robocon, is an Asian-Oceanian college robot competition, founded in 2002 by Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. In the competition robots compete to complete a task within a set period of time. The contest aims to build friendship among young people with similar interests who will lead their countries in the 21st century, as well as help advance engineering and broadcasting technologies in the region. The event is broadcast in many countries through ABU member broadcasters.

ABU Robocon extended the concept from NHK Robocon which started in 1991 and restricted to teams from Japan only.

Each year the competition has different topics, but generally speaking, two or more robots must be used to complete the tasks. One of the robots would be manually controlled while the others are automatic. The best robots usually weight more than 10 kg and span an area of one square meter. To build the robots, contestants, who are restricted to be undergraduate students, must possess rich knowledge in programming, mechanical design and electronic circuit design.

The theme and rules for each year are determined by the host country. Participating countries organize national qualifying contests to select their representative teams for the final competition. The host country is granted the special privilege of entering two teams in the final.

Each match is played between two teams, commonly designated as red and blue. The playing field is symmetrical, and both teams’ robots begin under the same conditions, with the exception of Robocon 2015, which used a turn-based format inspired by badminton, and Robocon 2025, which is based on basketball.

A typical match (excluding Robocon 2015 and Robocon 2025) lasts three minutes but may end earlier if a team achieves a “K.O.” victory, which immediately concludes the game. If neither team achieves this condition, the team with the higher score at the end of the three minutes is declared the winner.

Earlier editions of Robocon tend to emphasize the competitiveness of the game, in which winners achieve their win by employing strategic approaches to deploy their robots as well as preventing their opponent from reaching the goal. Vietnam's win in ABU Robocon 2004 and 2006, as well as China's victory in ABU Robocon 2008 demonstrated this strategy. To mitigate the problems, later editions reduce the combat nature and put more emphasis on technology, designing and making the robot perform complicated maneuvers, which require teams to be more creative on designing robots.

ABU Robocon 2026 will be held in Hong Kong. The theme is based on KungFu, with each team building 2 robots R1 and R2.