Servo - April 2010

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Send updates, new listings, corrections, complaints, and suggestions to: steve@ncc.com or FAX 972-404-0269

Know of any robot competitions I’ve missed? Is your local school or robot group planning a contest? Send an email to steve@ncc.com and tell me about it. Be sure to include the date and location of your contest. If you have a website with contest info, send along the URL as well, so we can tell everyone else about it.

For last-minute updates and changes, you can always find the most recent version of the Robot Competition FAQ at Robots.net: http://robots.net/rcfaq.html

13- 15

DTU RoboCup
Technical University of Denmark,
Copenhagen, Denmark
This event includes varied courses including line
and wall following.
www.robocup.dtu.dk

15- 17

— R. Steven Rainwater FIRST Robotics Competition Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA This is the big championship for FRC teams. www.usfirst.org

15- 17

APRIL

National Robotics Challenge
Marion, OH
This is the NRC Championship.
www.nationalroboticschallenge.org

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Austrian Hexapod Championship
FH Hagenberg, Austria
Six-legged robots dance and race their way to
annual fame. Based on previous years, expect to
see some interesting highlights on You Tube.
http://fh-ooe.at/fh-oberoesterreich/aktuell/
presse/fh-ooe-events

16

Carnegie Mellon Mobot Races
CMU, Pittsburgh, PA
This is the famous annual CMU autonomous
mobile robot race.
www.cs.cmu.edu/~mobot

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8-10 BotsIQ (previously known as BattleBots IQ)

Mare Island, Vallejo, CA

In this competition, students build remote controlled combat vehicles. www.botsiq.org Istrobot Slovak University of Technology, Bratislave, Slovakia, EU Events include IEEE Micromouse, mini Sumo, and freestyle. www.robotics.sk

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Trinity College Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest Trinity College, Hartford, CT In this event, autonomous robots must navigate a scale model of a house, search for a fire, and extinguish it. www.trincoll.edu/events/robot SparkFun Autonomous Vehicle Contest Boulder, CO Autonomous ground and air robots must circumnavigate the SparkFun building. http://sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info. php?products_id=9016

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Alcabot-Hispabot
University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
In addition to regional Eurobot and Robocup Jr
events, there will also be Sumo, Velocistas, and
Rastreadores. My Spanish is a little rusty, but I’m
guessing those last two are a robot racing event
and a line following event.
www.depeca.uah.es/alcabot
UC Davis Picnic Day Micromouse Contest
University of California,
Davis Campus, CA
The annual micromouse maze solving contest.
www.ece.ucdavis.edu/umouse