Servo - September 2011

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Know of any robot competitions I’ve missed? Is your local school or robot group planning a contest? Send an email to steve@ncc.com and tell me about it. Be sure to include the date and location of your contest. If you have a website with contest info, send along the URL as well, so we can tell everyone else about it.

For last-minute updates and changes, you can always find the most recent version of the Robot Competition FAQ at Robots.net: http://robots.net/rcfaq.html — R. Steven Rainwater

destination coordinates prior to the race, and all
bots will start concurrently.
www.robotika.cz/

24- 25

Robocup Junior Australia
University of Tasmania, Australia
Student teams build autonomous robots that
compete in three events: soccer, rescue, and
dance.
www.robocupjunior.org.au

SEPTEMBER

2-5

DragonCon Robot Battles
Atlanta, GA
Remoted controlled machines destroy each other
as entertainment for science fiction fans and
cosplayers.
www.dragoncon.org

5- 10

National Junior Robotics Competition
Science Centre, Singapore
Student teams develop problem-solving skills
creative thinking, and team spirit as they build
autonomous robots that compete for the
championship award.
www.science.edu.sg/events/Pages/
njrcompetition.aspx

12- 15

International Micro Air Vehicle Competition
't Harde, The Netherlands
Indoor and outdoor events for tiny flying robots.
Also, a special contest for Parrot AR Drones which
are relatively huge compared to the typical MAV.
Parrot is sponsoring this year with free loners of
Parrot AR Drones to participating teams. All events
are for fully autonomous robots only; no remote
control allowed except for tech demonstrations.
http://www.imav2011.org/

17

Robotour
Vienna, Austria
Autonomous robots must navigate through a
public park, carrying a payload that consists of a
five liter barrel. All robots receive a map and

OCTOBER

20- 21

Competencia Robotica (LARC) Center for Robotics UTFSM, Valparaiso, Chile This year's events are Robot Freighter and Police Robot. Robot Freighter is a way-finding contest in which robots must pick up a payload and take it to a destination. Police Robot is a contest where autonomous robots must surveil a city, locate criminals, and deploy guard robots in areas with too many criminals. http://robotica.elo.utfsm.cl/competencia/

21- 22

CalGames
Archbishop Mitty High School, San Jose, CA
This is a FIRST-based robotics event for high
school teams.
www.wrr f.org

21- 23

Critter Crunch

Hyatt Regency Tech Center, Denver, CO Autonomous and remote-controlled robots, and other machines battle each other in hopes of winning prizes that include handmade objects by local artists and awards for "amusing and arbitrary achievements." www.milehicon.org/?page_id=16