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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
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National Robotics Challenge
Marion, OH
A wide range of events for student-built robots
including Sumo, mini Sumo, pick-and-place,
robot construction, robot maze, rescue robot,
robo hockey, Bot Ball, and VEX Sack Attack.
www.nationalroboticschallenge.org
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Brown IEEE Robotics Competition
Brown University, Providence, RI
Autonomous robots must navigate a maze.
http://brown.edu/Departments/Engineering/
Organizations/Ieee/competition
13
APRIL
CIRC Central Illinois Bot Brawl
Normal, IL
Events include RC vehicle combat, Sumo,
line following, line maze, and Checkers on a
Sumo Ring.
http://circ.mtco.com
4-10
Alcabot-Hispabot
University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain
Sumo, mini Sumo, Robocup Jr, Eurobot,
Rastreadores, and Velocistas.
www.depeca.uah.es/alcabot
13
6-7
Trinity College Fire Fighting
Home Robot Contest
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Autonomous robots must find and extinguish
a fire.
www.trincoll.edu/events/robots
Penn State Abington Fire Fighting
Robot Contest
Penn State Abington, Abington, PA
Regional event for the Trinity College
Fire Fighting Contest.
www.ecsel.psu.edu/users/avanzato/robots/
contests/firefighting
17-
20
VEX Robotics World Championship
Anaheim, CA
This year's contest is called VEX Sack Attack.
www.vexrobotics.com/competition
9-11
DTU RoboCup
Copenhagen, Denmark
Autonomous robots compete on a course that
combines line following and wall following.
www.robocup.dtu.dk
19
Carnegie Mellon Mobot Races
CMU, Pittsburgh, PA
Student-built robots compete in the Mobot
Slalom and MoboJoust.
www.cs.cmu.edu/~mobot
11-
13
Istanbul Technical University
Robotic Olympics
Istanbul, Turkey
Events include line following, mini Sumo, fire
fighting, maze solving, and a robot vacuum
cleaner contest.
www.ituro.org
19-
21
RoboGames
San Mateo Event Center, San Mateo, CA
Over 50 events for all kinds of robots including
BEAM, Mindstorms, Soccer, Sumo, line
following, Robomagellan, Bartending, fire
fighting, and dozens of others.
www.robogames.net
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