Servo - July 2010

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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

JULY

7-11 BOTBALL National Tournament Edwardsville, IL

Autonomous robots built from standardized kits must move black and white balls around a game board. www.botball.org

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15

AAAI Mobile Robot Competition
Atlanta, GA
This year’s event is the Semantic Robot Vision
Challenge — a scavenger hunt for robots.
Autonomous robots are given a list of objects.
First, they must learn what the objects look like by
searching the Internet for photos, then they must
explore the local environment to find the objects.
www.aaai.org/Conferences/conferences.php

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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

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20

RoboBombeiro San Miguel Pavilion, Guarda, Portugal Autonomous fire fighting robot contest. http://robobombeiro.ipg.pt

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18- 23

CIG Car Racing Competition
Barcelona, Spain
Race cars controlled by neural networks created
by evolutionary algorithms.
www.wcci2010.org

19- 23

K’NEX K*bot World Championships
Las Vegas, NV
Events for two wheel autonomous robots, four
wheel autonomous robots, and three motor
remote control K*bots.
www.kbotworld.com

24

Chibots RoboMagellan
Chicago, IL
Autonomous robots must do waypoint navigation
and visual object recognition.
www.chibots.org

AUGUST

6-8

Rescue Robot Contest
Kobe, Japan
Autonomous and teleoperated search
and rescue robots.
http://rescue-robot-contest.org

9-13 AUVS International Aerial Robotics Competition

Puerto Rico

Autonomous aerial robots and sub-vehicles compete in a series of tasks. http://iarc.angel-strike.com

SEPTEMBER

3-6

DragonCon Robot Battles
Atlanta, GA
Autonomous and remote control robots battle at
the popular science fiction convention.
www.dragoncon.org