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a website with contest info, send along the URL as well,
so we can tell everyone else about it.
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— R. Steven Rainwater
JUNE
2-4
ION Autonomous Lawnmower Competition
Beavercreek, OH
Basic and advanced autonomous lawn mowing
robots try to be the fastest and most accurate at
mowing a lawn while avoiding stationary and
moving obstacles.
www.automow.com
3-6
AUVS International Ground Robotics
Competition
Oakland University, Rochester, MI
Autonomous ground robots must navigate an
outdoor obstacle course within a prescribed time
limit, while staying within a speed limit.
www.igvc.org
10-
12
National Underwater Robotics Challenge
Chandler, AZ
Simulated mission to another star system. Robot
probe must melt through the surface of an ice
planet, descend into the ocean below, deploy a
data bouy, and set up a nuclear powered AUV
power station, while gathering samples of any life
forms found. www.h2orobots.org
11
Pobot Junior Cup
Centre International de Valbonne
Sophia-Antipolis, France
Events include maze solving for LEGO NXT robots
and a pick-n-place contest.
www.pobot.org
16-
18
MATE ROV Competition
NASA JSC Neutral Bouyancy Lab, Houston, TX
18 SERVO 06.2011
ROVs complete tasks related to a simulated deepwater oil spill including removal of damaged riser
pipes, well capping, and collecting water or
biological samples.
www.marinetech.org/rov_competition
22-
27
Eurobot
Astrakhan, Russia
This year, autonomous robots compete against
each other to stack up "pawns" on a field roughly
based on a chess game.
www.eurobot.org
25-
26
International Autonomous Robot Contest
San Diego County Fairgrounds, San Diego, CA
Autonomous robots navigate around fixed
obstacles.
www.iaroc.org
JULY
4-
10
RoboCup Robot Soccer World Cup
Istanbul, Turkey
All the usual robot soccer events include software
simulations, small robot soccer, legged robot
soccer, even humanoid robot vs. human soccer.
www.robocup.org
8-
12
BOTBALL National Tournament
Orange County, CA
Student-built autonomous robots move black and
white balls on a game board.
www.botball.org
11
RobotRacing
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Autonomous robot car races.
www.robotracing.org
12-
17
AUVS International Underwater Robotics
Competition
SSC Pacific TRANSDEC, San Diego, CA
Autonomous underwater robots must complete a
course with various requirements. The contest is
being renamed to the "International RoboSub
Competition" this year. www.auvsifoundation.
org/AUVSI/FOUNDATION/Competitions
