JULY
7-11 BOTBALL National Tournament
Edwardsville, IL
Robots move black and white balls on a game
board. A robot of appropriate size is provided
in kit form.
www.botball.org
11-
15
AAAI Mobile Robot Competition
Atlanta, GA
Events include Semantic Robot Vision Challenge,
Human-Robot Interaction Challenge, Integration
Challenge, and a Robot Exhibition.
www.aaai.org/Conferences/conferences.php
13-
18
AUVS International Underwater
Robotics Competition
Space and Naval Warefare System Center
San Diego, CA
Autonomous underwater vehicles must complete
an underwater course with various requirements.
Bots cannot be greater than six feet long by three
feet wide by two feet deep, and not be greater
than 100 kg mass.
www.auvsi.org/competitions/water.cfm
17-
20
RoboBombeiro
San Miguel Pavilion, Guarda, Portugal
This is a fire-fighting robot contest.
http://robobombeiro.ipg.pt
18-
23
CIG Car Racing Competition
Barcelona, Spain
This is a competition for race cars controlled
by artificially evolved neural nets.
www.wcci2010.org
19-
23
K’NEX K*bot World Championships
Las Vegas, NV
This event includes Two-wheel drive K*bots
(autonomous), Four-wheel drive K*bots
(autonomous), Cyber K*bot Division (RC), and
Motorless K*bot Division (simple machines).
www.kbotworld.com
24
RobotRacing
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Autonomous car racing.
www.robotracing.org
AUGUST
6-8
Rescue Robot Contest
Kobe, Japan
Teleoperated and autonomous search and rescue.
http://rescue-robot-contest.org
9-13 AUVS International Aerial Robotics
Competition
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Puerto Rico
In this event, fully autonomous air vehicles and
sub-vehicles perform tasks. There is no size
limit, but weight must be under 90 kg/198 lbs
(including fuel). This event is open to college
students only.
http://avdil.gtri.gatech.edu/AUVS/IARC
LaunchPoint.html
SEPTEMBER
3-6
DragonCon Robot Battles
Atlanta, GA
Twelve pound max weight single combat; 60
pound max weight single combat. Autonomous
and remote control classes. The event is held as
part of a science fiction convention called
DragonCon.
www.dragoncon.org
5-12 Microtransat Challenge
County Kerry, Ireland
Robot boat race.
www.microtransat.org
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