Mission 04 leaves almost no room for a careless approach. In this tutorial for the FLL 2025 UNEARTHED competition, the Smaller Pancake box robot works with the Careful Recovery attachment to enter the mine, close around the artifact, and lift it clear of the fragile supports.
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- 05 Aug 2026
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- LEGO Education SPIKE Prime
- Grab, Lift, FIRST LEGO League 2025-2026 UNEARTHED, FIRST LEGO League, Attachments - active, LEGO Education SPIKE App Word Blocks
Because the mission model itself cannot be trusted as an alignment surface, the solution begins with precise placement in base. From there, a tightly meshed gear-and-rack mechanism does the delicate work. Watch to see how the attachment grabs, raises, and protects the artifact during the return without turning the run into a slow series of corrections.
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FIRST LEGO League 2025-2026 UNEARTHED with SCRATCH - Solutions and Review with Smaller Pancake Box Robot from LEGO Education SPIKE Prime
The FIRST LEGO League 2025-2026 UNEARTHED competition challenges teams to recover artifacts, work around delicate structures, and complete several actions efficiently. This course explores practical solutions using the compact Smaller Pancake box robot.
You’ll study a variety of mission strategies and attachment designs, including active and passive mechanisms, gears, hooks, rubber bands, gravity-powered actions, and alignment techniques. The tutorials explain not only what the robot does, but also why each design and programming decision improves the run.
Each main tutorial is paired with a 10 out of 10 reliability test, showing how consistently the solution performs and how details such as starting position, tire grip, attachment preparation, and mission-model movement can affect the result.
To support fair play, our complete mission solutions are published only after the season has ended. Before starting the course, we recommend reviewing the FIRST LEGO League robot game guide.
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Run 4 - M04 - Grab, Lift
This lesson explores the precision required for Mission 04: Careful Recovery in the FIRST LEGO League 2025-2026 UNEARTHED competition. You’ll see how the robot enters the mine, secures the Precious Artifact, and lifts it away without disturbing the surrounding supports.
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