Servo - November 2008

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

— R. Steven Rainwater

November

1

Bloomington VEX Tournament

Ivy Tech Community College, Bloomington, IN Events include Top-It-Off-2, Pythagorean-2, VEX Tractor Pull, and a CAD Design Contest. http://robotics.bloomington.googlepages.com

15

ROBOMO Expo

Indian Trails Public Library, Overland, MO This year’s ROBOMO will include demonstrations of mini-Sumo, line-following, mini-Magellan, and robot soccer. All robots are welcome. There will be door prizes and a Chinese food buffet afterwards. www.robomo.com

21-23 All Japan MicroMouse Contest

Tsukuba, Japan

Includes Micromouse, Micromouse Expert level, and Micro Clipper events. www.robomedia.org/directory/jp/game/mm_ japan.html

22

Roaming Robots Grand Final Kent, UK “Robots” (RC vehicles) attempt to destroy each other. www.roamingrobots.co.uk/events_ calendar.htm

22-23 Canadian National Robot Games

Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lots of events including Mini-Sumo, full size Sumo, fire-fighting robots, line-following, a

walking robot race, Photovore, Search and Rescue, and an Art and Innovation contest. www.robotgames.ca

24

Hawaii Underwater Robot Challenge Kahanamoku Pool, UoH at Manoa, Honolulu, HI Timed, multitasking tethered mission. www.marinetech.org/rov_competition

29

FIRST LEGO League of South Africa Championship Sci Bono Science Center, Johannesburg, South Africa FIRST LEGO League events. www.fllsa.org.za

TBA

South’s BEST competition Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum, Auburn University, Auburn, AL Different each year, see website for details. The listed date is for the state-wide championship contest. A month earlier, the various teams have regional contests and the winners go on to compete at the state-wide competition. BEST is very similar to the FIRST contest except that in the BEST event, teams of students build robots from standardized kits with only minimal guidance from their corporate sponsors. www.southsbest.org/ or www.bestinc.org/

December

4-31

ROBOEXOTICA Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria Robots are tested on serving cocktails, mixing cocktails, bartending conversation, lighting cigarettes/cigars, and other achievements in electronic cocktail culture. www.roboexotica.org/en/acra.htm