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— R. Steven Rainwater
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
11
RobotRacing
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Autonomous robot race cars navigate an outdoor
race track.
www.robotracing.org
14
Elevator:2010 Climber Competition
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Edwards Air Force Base, Mojave, CA
In this competition, autonomous robots must
climb a 1 km tether powered only by light
beamed from an 8 Kw laser at the elevator’s
base.
www.spaceelevatorgames.org
18
RoboBombeiro
San Miguel, Portugal
Autonomous fire-fighting robots compete to put
out a fire.
http://robobombeiro.ipg.pt/
20-24 AUVS International Aerial Robotics
Competition
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Autonomous flying robots and sub-vehicles
perform complex tasks including entering and
searching buildings.
http://avdil.gtri.gatech.edu/AUVS/IARC
LaunchPoint.html
20-24 K'NEX K*bot World Championships
Las Vegas, NV
Multiple events with asterisks in their name like
Cyber K*bots, Four-wheel drive K*bots, and Two-wheel drive K*bots.
www.livingjungle.com
28
AUVS International Underwater Robotics
Competition (runs through Aug 2)
San Diego, CA
In this competition, university students field
autonomous robots that must complete an
underwater course.
www.auvsi.org/competitions/water.cfm
TBA
Robo-Champion
Science Center, Singapore
In this event, autonomous LEGO robots compete
on a Plegofield course.
www.schoolofrobotics.com
August
18-20 FIRA Robot World Cup
Incheon, Korea
A robot soccer competition that tries to combine
robotics with high quality scientific research in AI
and computer vision.
www.fira.net/
26
Homebrew Robotics Club (HBRC)
Challenge
CMU Silicon Valley Campus, Silicon Valley, CA
In this competition, there are three events
including the TABLEBot Challenge, a
RoboMagellan contest, and an Open Exhibition.
www.hbrobotics.org
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