Servo - April 2012

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Send updates, new listings, corrections, complaints, and suggestions to: steve@ncc.com or FAX 972-404-0269

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

20- 22

RoboGames

San Mateo Event Center, San Mateo, CA Events include FIRA, BEAM, Mindstorms, and machine combat.

www.robogames.net

21

Istrobot
STU, Bratislave, Slovakia, EU
Line-following, IEEE Micromouse, Mini Sumo,
and free-style events.
www.robotiks.sk

APRIL

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12- 14

National Robotics Challenge
Marion, OH
This year's event is the Canine Companion
Challenge.
www.nationalroboticschallenge.org
Penn State Abington Fire-Fighting
Robot Contest
Penn State Abington, Abington, PA
Autonomous robots must navigate a maze
and extinguish a fire.
www.ecsel.psu.edu/~avanzato/robots
/contests

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14

Brown IEEE Robotics Competition
Brown University, Providence, RI
Here, 25 cm autonomous robots must navigate
a maze.
http://brown.edu/Departments/Engineering
/Organizations/Ieee/competition
Robot-SM
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Events include Sumo, Mini Sumo, and Robot
Pentathlon.
www.robotsm.se

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14

RoboRodentia

California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo, CA Autonomous Micromouse-like robots must navigate a maze.

https://sites.google.com/site/ calpolycomputerengineering The Tech Museum of Innovation's Annual Tech Challenge Parkside Hall, San Jose, CA Shake, Rattle, and Rescue — robotic rescue devices for earthquakes. http://techchallenge.thetech.org

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19- 21

VEX Robotics World Championship
Anaheim, CA
Best high school and university VEX teams
in the world compete.
www.vexrobotics.com/competition
UC Davis Picnic Day Micromouse
Competition
University of California, Davis Campus, CA
Micromouse maze solving.
www.ece.ucdavis.edu/umouse

23- 24

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Carnegie Mellon Mobot Races
CMU, Pittsburgh, PA
Events include Mobot Slalom and the
MoboJoust.
www.cs.cmu.edu/~mobot
IEEE TERPA Student Robotics Competition
Boston, MA
This year's theme is robotic cars.
www.ieeerobot-tepra.org/student
comp.html