EVENTS
Results and Upcoming Events
Results Jun 12 –
Jul 12, 2008
RoboGames 2008 was held by
ComBots on June 12 through
15, in San Francisco, CA. Go to
www.robogames.net for more
details.
Roaming Robots held seven
shows/competitions between
June 15th and July 12th. Go to
www.roam
ingrobots.co.
uk for more
details.
Pennsylvania Bot
Blast 2008 was
held on July 12, in
Bloomsburg, PA. Go to www.
dwrobots.com for more details.
Upcoming Events for
Sep-Oct 2008
HORD Fall
2008 will be
held by the Ohio
Robot Club in
Strongsville, OH
on September
13th. Go to www.ohiorobotclub.
org for more details.
Franklin Institute Robot Weekend
will be held on October 11th
in Philadelphia, PA. Go to
www.nerc.us for more details.
Robots Live will hold a show at
Midlands MCM Expo in Telford,
Shropshire September 13th–14th, and
another show at the Huddersfield
Sport Centre September 20th–21st
in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Go
to www.robotslive.co.uk for more
details.
Robothon Robot Combat 2008
will be
held by
Western
Allied
Robotics in
Seattle,
WA on
September
21st. Go to www.western
alliedrobotics.com for more
details.
Mecha-Mayhem 2008 will be
held on October 16th in
Rosemont, IL. Go to www.the
crca.org for more details.
2008 Halloween Robot Terror
will be held on October
25th in Gilroy, CA. Go to
www.calbugs.com for more
details. SV
EVENT REP RT
My RoboGames Experience
Ihave gone to RoboGames for
quite a few years now and each
year we have a wonderful time. It is
awesome to see all the different
types of robots and technology that
come together in one place. There
are many different events that go
● by Darci New
on throughout the weekend: soccer
bots, Sumo bots, walking
humanoids, robots that dance, art
bots, hockey bots and, of course,
combat robots. Each of these is very
interesting in its own way and you
should take the time to go see each
and every part of the RoboGames
experience.
When you first walk into the
Fort Mason center in San Francisco,
CA, where RoboGames is held
each year, there are rows of tables
with different robotic toys and
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