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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
20 SERVO 01.2013
JANUARY
3-5
Techfest
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Events include an International Robotics
Challenge, TechOlympics, Robotron, Dimensions,
Xtreme Machines, and Code Czar.
www.techfest.org
11-
12
FIRST LEGO League of Central Europe
Obrigheim, Germany
This is the big FIRST LEGO League championship
event for the area.
www.hands-on-technology.de/en/first
legoleague
22-
23
Singapore Robotic Games
Science Centre, Republic of Singapore
The games include lots of events: picomouse,
Sumo, robot soccer, wall climbing, pole
balancing, underwater robots, legged robots,
robot colony, humanoid competition, and the
intelligent robot competition.
http://guppy.mpe.nus.edu.sg/srg
24-
27
ION Autonomous Snowplow Competition
St. Paul, MN
Just what it sounds like — autonomous
snowplow robots must remove snow along a
designated path.
www.autosnowplow.com
FEBRUARY
1-3 Quark Roboficial
Goa, India
Student competition for autonomous robots
with a variety of events.
www.bits-quark.org
1-4
Robotix
West Bengal, India
Events at the competition include Abyss,
Overhaul, A.C.R.O.S.S., Lumos, The Seeker, and
Marauder's Map.
www.robotix.in