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— R. Steven Rainwater
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DPRG Roborama
Dallas, TX
The DPRG Roborama will have indoor and
outdoor events for autonomous robots including
line following, square dance, table top, and
RoboColumbus.
www.dprg.org/competitions
13
Robotic Arena
Wroclaw, Poland
Mini Sumo, Sumo, line following, and
freestyle events.
http://lirec.ict.pwr.wroc.pl/~arena
NOVEMBER
18-
19
6
Bloomington VEX Tournament
Ivy Tech Community College, Bloomington, IN
The Bloomington VEX Tournament includes several
VEX events including Hoopla, Full Pull, and a fully
autonomous event.
http://sites.google.com/site/bloomington
roboticsclub
Real World Robot Challenge
Tsukuba Expo Center, Tsukuba, Japan
In the Real World Robot Challenge, autonomous
robots must navigate on real world streets
and sidewalks.
www.ntf.or.jp/challenge
19-
20
6-7
Korea Intelligent Robot Contest
Pohang City, Korea
The Korea Intelligent Robot Contest includes
events for autonomous cleaning robots and an
intelligent robot contest.
http://irc.piro.re.kr
Texas BEST Regional Championship
UNT Coliseum, Denton, TX
This year's contest is called Total Recall.
www.eng.unt.edu/texasbest
19-
21
7
International Micro Robot Maze Contest
Nagoya University, Japan
This Micro Robot Maze Contest will have lots of
events for tiny robots including Micro robot racers,
climbers, and maze solver robots; all one cubic cm
or smaller. Also a two leg walker contest for two
inch robots.
http://imd.eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp/maze
All Japan MicroMouse Contest
Tsukuba, Japan
In this MicroMouse Contest, speedy autonomous
robots must solve a maze in the shortest
time possible.
www.ntf.or.jp/mouse
20-
21
Canadian National Robot Games
Ontario Science Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
This competition has events that include line
following, Sumo, search and rescue, fire-fighting,
and a walker race.
www.robotgames.ca
7
Roaming Robots Grand Final
Maidstone, UK
In the Roaming Robots Grand Final, remote
controlled vehicles attempt to destroy
each other.
www.roamingrobots.co.uk
21
Robocon
Tokyo, Japan
Robocon is a nationwide robotics championship
event with teams from over 50 schools
participating.
www.of ficial-robocon.com
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