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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
June
5-8
AUVS International Ground Robotics
Competition
Oakland University, Rochester, MI
University teams field autonomous ground robots
that must navigate an outdoor obstacle course.
www.igvc.org/
12-14 RoboGames
Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
This is the big one with over 70 events for
everything ranging from Sumo and robot soccer
to android Kung-Fu.
www.robogames.net
13
KCRS Robot Exhibition and Competition
Kansas City, MO
Events include Mini Sumo, Solar Rollers, Photovore
Mouse Race, Line-Following, and the oddly named
Dinnerware Demolition.
www.kansascityrobotics.org
13-14 Motodrone AFO Competition
Finowfurt, Germany
Events for autonomous flying robots including stable
hovering in changing wind, waypoint navigation,
capturing objects, automatic take-off and others.
www.motodrone.de
19
SPURT
Rostock-Warnemunde, Germany
Autnomous robots race around the official
SPURT track.
http://spurt.uni-rostock.de
24-26 MATE ROV Competition
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
San Diego, CA
In this event, high school and university teams
field remotely operated underwater robots in
an event that simulates an underwater rescue
mission to deliver emergency supplies to a
submarine.
www.marinetech.org/rov_competition
27-28 International Autonomous Robot Contest
San Diego County Fairgrounds, San Diego, CA
Multiple events for autonomous robots including
a technical presentation, an Urban Challenge
event, and the Gold Rush Challenge.
www.iaroc.org
27
UK National Micromouse Competition
Birmingham, United Kingdom
In this competition, there is maze solving for
autonomous micromouse robots.
www.tic.ac.uk/micromouse
29
RoboCup Robot Soccer World Cup
(runs through July 5)
Graz, Austria
Robot soccer events for all types of autonomous
robots including four-legged robots, bipeds, and
wheeled robots. Also includes the NIST Rescue
robots field test event.
www.robocup.org
Jully
1-5
Botball National Tournament
Leesburg, VA
Autonomous robot event for student teams.
www.botball.org
7-9
Singapore Inter-School Micromouse
Competition
Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore
This is a maze solving event for autonomous
micromouse robots.
www.np.edu.sg/alpha/micromouse/
mice_main.htm
30 SERVO 06.2009
