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— 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
11-
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
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
Autonomous fire fighting robot contest.
http://robobombeiro.ipg.pt
20 SERVO 07.2010
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
5-12 Microtransat Challenge
County Kerry, Ireland
Autonomous sail boats start on a race across the