{"id":1917,"date":"2026-09-05T19:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sobotz.com\/en\/?page_id=1917"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:53:36","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sobotz.com\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lede wp-block-paragraph\">SoBotz is a one-person workshop in \u0160iauliai, Lithuania, making the robot parts I wished existed when I started competing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tomas Sobutas \u2014 owner, maker and everything in between<\/h2>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am from \u0160iauliai, Lithuania&#8217;s fourth-largest city, and I study electronics engineering at Kaunas University of Technology. Electronics caught me as a kid, LEGO robotics followed around 2013, and I built my first mini sumo robot in 2016.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then I have competed across Europe. The losses between 2017 and 2019 came from trying to innovate instead of copying the designs that already worked \u2014 these days I usually place. I wrote up my mini sumo robot in detail on blog.jsumo.com, and it is good to see other builders using those ideas.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SoBotz exists because the EU market was slacking: the parts that actually perform were either hard to get or priced far too high. So I make and stock them here.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Events I run<\/h2>\r\n<div class=\"callout\"><div class=\"ctitle\">Dronahell<\/div><div class=\"crow\"><span>Since<\/span><span>2019 \u00b7 annual<\/span><\/div><div class=\"crow\"><span>Scale<\/span><span>Largest drone race in the Baltics \u00b7 32 pilots<\/span><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Recycled Antweight Workshop<\/strong> \u2014 a low-cost robot build at Kaunas Makerspace using recycled filament and LiPo batteries: roughly \u20ac16 per robot, released as open source.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MakerWars 2023<\/strong> \u2014 the makerspace&#8217;s first antweight competition, with more than 40 attendees.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ComicClash 2024<\/strong> \u2014 an antweight competition during Comic Con Baltics 2024, with 40 robots and special awards.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoBotz is a one-person workshop in \u0160iauliai, Lithuania, making the robot parts I wished existed when I started competing. Tomas Sobutas \u2014 owner, maker and everything in between I am from \u0160iauliai, Lithuania&#8217;s fourth-largest city, and I study electronics engineering at Kaunas University of Technology. Electronics caught me as a kid, LEGO robotics followed around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":23,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1917","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobotz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobotz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobotz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobotz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobotz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sobotz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/sobotz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1917\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobotz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}