Servo - October 2014

OCTOBER

3-4 CalGames

Woodside High School, Woodside, CA

FIRST-based contest for student teams.

www.wrr f.org

9-12 Intl Beach and Sea Robot Competition

Samos Island, Greece

Events for beach-cleaning robots and underwater object detection robots.

http://samosweb.aegean.gr/aegeanrobotics/ index.php/en/inter-beach-sea-comp

18-22 Latin American Robotics Competition

Sao Carlos-SP, Brazil

Events include Brazilian Robotics Competition, Robocup Latin American Open, Brazilian National Olympiad, and the National Robotics Fair.

www.cbrobotica.org

24-26 Critter Crunch

Hyatt Regency Tech Center, Denver, CO

The original robot combat event for autonomous and remote control robots.

www.milehicon.org

NOVEMBER

1 Bloomington VEX Tournament

Bloomington, IN

Events for VEX-based robots include Full Pull XL, F8 Autonomous, and Light the Lamp.

http://sites.google.com/site/ bloomingtonroboticsclub

5-9 FIRA Robot World Cup

ShiJingShan District, Beijing, China

Events include HuroSot, RoboSot, MiroSot, NaroSot, and KheperaSot.

www.fira.net

5-9 IROC International Robot Olympiad

Beijing, China

This year's event is called "Robot, Stop Global Warming!"

www.iroc.org

9 International Micro Robot Maze Contest

Nagoya University, Japan

Events include Micro Robot Racer, Climbing Competition, Maze Solver, and Two Leg Robot Competition. Robots range in size from 1 cm to 2 inches.

http://imd.eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp/maze

21-23 All Japan MicroMouse Contest

Atsugi Campus, Tokyo Polytechnic, Atsugi Kanagawa, JAPAN

Events include Micromouse Classic, Micromouse Half-size, and Robotrace.

www.ntf.or.jp/mouse

EVENTS

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.