Team building challenges in Mountain View built around robots: teams assemble a bot, earn upgrades in timed games and battle in a refereed arena.
Product squads and engineering orgs in Mountain View spend all week building things on screens. This program hands them a physical robot kit instead, splits every team into two crews and ends with a loud, refereed rally. The traveling crew brings every kit, arena piece and prop to your office or event space, and the experience runs 90 to 120 minutes for 10 to 1,000 guests, indoors or outdoors.
Split crews, shared goal
After an icebreaker forms teams of 6 to 8, each team divides. The build crew assembles and customizes the robot from the kit with a facilitator nearby,
Team building challenges in Mountain View built around robots: teams assemble a bot, earn upgrades in timed games and battle in a refereed arena.
Product squads and engineering orgs in Mountain View spend all week building things on screens. This program hands them a physical robot kit instead, splits every team into two crews and ends with a loud, refereed rally. The traveling crew brings every kit, arena piece and prop to your office or event space, and the experience runs 90 to 120 minutes for 10 to 1,000 guests, indoors or outdoors.
Split crews, shared goal
After an icebreaker forms teams of 6 to 8, each team divides. The build crew assembles and customizes the robot from the kit with a facilitator nearby, giving it a name and a look. Meanwhile the challenge crew competes in quick mental and physical team building challenges, and every win earns munitions, battlements and upgrades that get bolted onto the bot. Nobody stands around, because both crews are racing the same clock.
The rally games
- Cyborg Soccer: robots push the ball toward a goal while teams steer and shout instructions
- Mine Sweep: drivers navigate a field of hazards without setting one off
- Future Joust: head to head bouts where design choices and upgrades decide the outcome
- Referees run each game, testing robot design, speed and agility, and points roll up toward the final standings
Who books it
Executive retreats, company offsite days, conferences, holiday parties and team building events for technical groups are the core audience across Silicon Valley. Hardware and software teams love the build, but non-engineers do just as well because the challenge crew rewards strategy and teamwork rather than technical skill. Large conferences simply add teams and facilitators as headcount grows, and smaller departments get the same full format with fewer teams. Planners often place it on the second afternoon of an offsite, when people have met each other and are ready to compete.
Included in the program
- All robot kits and customization materials, with nothing extra to purchase
- A dedicated host who coordinates the event from kickoff to awards
- One facilitator for every 20 to 30 attendees to guide builds and referee games
- An icebreaker to form teams, with a wristband technique for groups of 80 or more
- First place medals, plus second and third place awards for groups over 75
- Setup and teardown of the arena by the crew
What teams take away
The two crew structure mirrors how real projects work: one group builds while another secures resources, and the results only come together if they communicate. That makes it one of the more memorable problem solving team building activities for teams that already work under deadlines. Leaders often use the debrief afterward to talk about planning, handoffs and adapting when an upgrade does not go as expected, which carries the team bonding back to the office.
Space and timing
Allow 90 to 120 minutes. Indoors, a conference room, ballroom or open office floor with space for team tables and an arena works well; outdoors, a flat courtyard or lawn is ideal. Groups range from 10 to 1,000 guests on this listing, always with teams of 6 to 8 so every guest has a job.
Booking
Per person pricing is listed on this page and the total is transparent before you check out. Pick a date and enter your guest count above to view the price breakdown, then send a request to book or add it to your event cart; the provider confirms each request directly. Check availability about four to six weeks ahead for weekday dates, and browse the verified details above to compare it with other team building activities for work in Mountain View, California.
