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RobotCup Junior Australia
Canberra, Australia
In this competition, students and mentors
create robots that compete in challenges
such as robot soccer, robot rescue, and
robot dance.
www.robocupjunior.org.au
18
Robotour
Bratislava, Slovakia
Autonomous robots must perform a navigation
task in a park.
http://robotika.cz
SEPTEMBER
3-6
DragonCon Robot Battles
Atlanta, GA
In this competition, 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
Atlantic ocean; this will take three to four months
to complete.
www.microtransat.org
6-11 National Junior Robotics Competition
Science Centre, Singapore
100s of student teams compete in this LEGO
Mindstorms competition.
www.science.edu.sg/ssc/events.jsp?type=
17&root=0&parent=0&cat=317
15-
19
FIRA Robot World Cup
Bangalore, India
This is the big annual robot soccer competition
which includes RoboSot robot soccer, MiroSot
micro robot soccer, HuroCup single humanoid
robot soccer, AndroSot multiple humanoid robot
soccer, and AMiRESot mini robot soccer. If your
robot likes to play soccer, this is the place to be.
Don't forget your vuvuzela!
www.fira.in
20 SERVO 09.2010
OCTOBER
3-10 Devyanin Mobile Robots
Festival
Moscow State University,
Moscow, Russian Federation
Autonomous robot race.
www.mobilerobots.msu.ru/en
16
Antimov
SparkFun, Boulder, CO
This competition is autonomous robot
performance art in which robots attempt to
self destruct in humorous or entertaining
ways.
www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_
info.php?products_id=9975
22-
24
Critter Crunch
Denver, CO
Autonomous and remote control robots
participate in the original robot combat event.
www.milehicon.org
22-
24
SRS Robothon
Seattle, WA
This year's Robothon includes Robo-Magellan,
Robot Combat, Double-Cross, and Brickheap
Wars.
www.robothon.org
