Robotica is a robot combat show (similar to the early seasons of Robot Wars) produced for the American television cable channel TLC, a subsidiary of the Discovery Channel, from April 4, 2001, to November 16, 2002.

Each preliminary show in the first season of Robotica featured four robots weighing as much as 210 pounds paired off in a series of three challenges.

The winner of the show was awarded the largest cash prize in robot combat to that date: $12,000.

The Speedway was eliminated, The Gauntlet was redesigned, and The Maze had been completely re-done and renamed The Labyrinth.

The former two-path Maze was now a single Labyrinth wherein both robots could roam to choose from six scoring obstacles.

Also roaming the Labyrinth were two rat-shaped robots named the "Robotica Rats" that could interfere with (or sometimes help) the competitors.

Obstacles were: Robots started together in a motorized rotating turntable, where combat was encouraged.

A low guard rail surrounded the platform for the first minute, then fell away.