Solid Pool Noodle

These solid polyethylene (PE) closed cell foam noodles are great for building bumpers for the FIRST® Robotics Competition.

This foam outperformed all other tested options when paired with a backing of Soft Tiles. See our testing document below for more specifics.

A rough estimation is that about 6-8 pool noodles are used for 1 set of bumpers depending on robot size, with each noodle being ~47 in. long. Noodles are required to be purchased in multiples of 8. Read the robot rules to ensure you understand how to create legal bumpers based on this year's rules.

See this video for more of AndyMark engineers thoughts on bumpers: