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a website with contest info, send along the URL as well,
so we can tell everyone else about it.
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— R. Steven Rainwater
JANUARY
6-8
TECHFEST
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
This year's contests for autonomous robots
include Archi Tech, Autobots, Nexus, Robowars,
and Split Second.
www.techfest.org
13-
14
FIRST LEGO League of Central Europe
Brandenburg University of Technology
Cottbus, Germany
The Central Europe regional for the FIRST
LEGO League — a robot competition for
students ages 10 to 16.
www.hands-on-technology.de/en/
firstlegoleague
24
Powered by Sun
Ostrava, Czech Republic
A race of solar-powered autonomous robots.
http://napajenisluncem.vsb.cz
26-
29
ION Autonomous Snowplow Competition
St. Paul, MN
The folks who run the annual autonomous
lawnmower competition bring you this new
cold-weather robot event for autonomous
snowplow robots.
www.autosnowplow.com
27-
30
Robotix
IIT Khargpur, West Bengal, India
20 SERVO 01.2012
Lots of events for autonomous and remote-control bots including Ballista, Pirate Bay,
RAFT, RoboCop, Fugitives, and Negotiators.
www.robotix.in
27-
30
Techkriti RoboGames
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar
Pradesh, India
This year's events are Wild Soccer II,
The Isle of Torgua, Robot's Got Talent,
Lumos, and Ocean's Fourteen.
www.techkriti.org/#/competitions/
robogames
31- Singapore Robotic Games
FEB 2 IITE College East, Simei, Republic of Singapore
A host of events include Picomouse, Sumo,
Robot Soccer, Intelligent Robot Competition,
Wall Climbing, Pole Balancing, Underwater
Robots, Legged Robot Marathon, Robot Colony,
Humanoid Competition, and more.
http://guppy.mpe.nus.edu.sg/srg
FEBRUARY
1-4
Kurukshetra
Guindy, Chennai, India
Lots of robot events including K!onstructor,
Khimera, and Pandemonium.
www.kurukshetra.org.in
5-9
APEC Micromouse Contest
Orlando, FL
Speedy autonomous mice robots solve mazes.
www.apec-conf.org
23-
26
Pragyan
National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India
Events include Traffic Rush, Fix the Android,
Diner Dash, and Lanka Reloaded.
www.pragyan.org
