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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.
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— R. Steven Rainwater
August
9
RoboCountry
Takamtsu City, Kagawa, Japan
ROBO-ONE style humanoid robot combat.
www.robocountry4.com
23-24 Motodrone AFO Competition
Finowfurt, Germany
Autonomous Flying Objects (AFOs) compete in
several areas including the ability to hover in
changing wind conditions, stable flight between
points, capturing photos of targets, recovering
from freefall, and automated take-off and
landing.
www.motodrone.de
29
DragonCon Robot Battles
Atlanta, GA
At this event, remote-controlled and autonomous
robots fight it out at the DragonCon science
fiction convention.
www.dragoncon.org
TBA
DPRG Robot Talent Show
The Science Place, Dallas, TX
Autonomous robots demonstrate their talents.
www.dprg.org/competitions
TBA
Robot Fighting League National
Minneapolis, MN
“Robots” (RC vehicles) attempt to destroy each
other.
www.botleague.com
TBA
Robots at Play
City Square, Odense, Denmark
Robots compete to demonstrate playfulness and
interactivity.
www.robotsatplay.dk
September
6
ROBO-ONE Helper Robot Project
Kawasaki City, Japan
Teleoperated robots compete at performing
common household tasks.
http://getrobo.typepad.com/getrobo/2008/
05/ new-helper-robo.html or
www.robo-one.com/robo_help/robo_help.
html
17
Powered by Sun
Ostrava, Czech Republic
Just as the name suggests, this is a competition of
solar-powered robots.
http://napajenisluncem.vsb.cz
18-19 Korea Intelligent Robot Contest
POSTECH Gymnasium, Pohang City, Korea
This competition includes several events for
general-purpose intelligent robots and one
event for specialized cleaning robots.
http://irc.piro.re.kr
20
Robotour
Prague, Czech Republic
Autonomous robots must navigate in a park.
www.robotika.cz
20-21 RoboCup Junior Australia
Scitech Museum, Perth, Australia
Events include robot dance, robot rescue, and
robot soccer.
www.robocupjunior.org.au
27
Elevator:2010 Climber Competition
To be announced (see website for updates)
Autonomous climber robot must ascend a scale
model of a space elevator using power beamed
from the base.
www.elevator2010.org
24 SERVO 08.2008
