Upcoming Events
for Jul – Aug 2010
UBAYA RoboGames 2010 will be presented by the Universitas
Surabaya in Surabaya, Indonesia, on
July 31 to August 1, 2010. Go to
www.elektroubayarg.com for
more information.
Roaming Robots
will hold
events July
17th to
18th at
RAF Fairford, UK; and July 23rd
to 25th at the Farnborough Air
Show. Go to www.roaming
robots.co.uk if you want more
information.
Schiele Museum “Clash of the Bots” will be presented by
Carolina Combat Robots in Gastonia,
NC on July 24,2010. Go to
www.carolinacombat.com for
more information. SV
EVENT REPORT:
Power Play!
Rob t Rumble 2010
● by Pete Smith
The Museum of Life and Science, in Durham, NC, hosts this one
day event each spring. Last year,
three local teams got together to
put on a “show and tell” about
combat robotics as part of the
museum’s much bigger robot-themed event.
This year, Carolina Combat
( www.carolinacombat.com) and
Kitbots ( www.kitbots.com) had
hoped to run an insect weight
combat event and also stage
the first Bot Hockey
competition on the East Coast.
A ban on lithium polymer
batteries anywhere on
museum property (other than
in cell phones and laptops)
turned the Bot Hockey
competition into a
demonstration-only of the
sport with a lot of visitor
participation.
Bot Hockey was conceived
of by Chris Baron at Robot
Power ( www.robotpower.
com) as a way of combining
the excitement of ice hockey
with the fun of robotics. The
rules can be found at
are two weight classes in the rule
set, but only the “Senior” class of 15
lb, 18” square bots has gained
popularity. From a start in 2007 with
only six “demo” bots designed by
myself and built by Chris, the sport is
gaining popularity, especially on the
West Coast and in Brazil with the
result that nine teams entered this
year’s RoboGames.
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