DECEMBER
5-8 ROBOEXOTICA
Vienna, Austria
The famous annual competition of bartending robots
including events for mixing cocktails, server cocktails,
lighting cigarettes, bartending conversation, and
"other achievements in electronic cocktail culture."
www.roboexotica.org
7-8 South's BEST Competition
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Regional event for the BEST student robotics
competition.
www.southsbest.org
16-19 IROC International Robot Olympiad
Denver, CO
Events at this year's Olympiad will focus on
agricultural robots.
www.iroc.org
JANUARY
3-5 Techfest
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
University level competition for autonomous robots
including events like the International Robotics
Challenge, Robotron, and Code Master.
www.techfest.org
22-23 Singapore Robotic Games
Republic of Singapore
A wide range of events for autonomous robots
including Picomouse, Sumo, robot soccer, wall
climbing, pole balancing, underwater robots, legged
robot marathon, Robot Colony, and an event for
humanoid robots.
http://guppy.mpe.nus.edu.sg/srg
23-26 ION Autonomous Snowplow Competition
St. Paul, MN
Autonomous snowplow robots compete to remove
snow on a designated path.
www.autosnowplow.com
23 Powered by Sun
Ostrava, Czech Republic
Autonomous solar-powered robots compete in a
race.
http://napajenisluncem.vsb.cz/
31 Robotix
IIT Khargpur, West Bengal, India
Large tech competition for university students that
includes a variety of robot-related events.
www.robotix.in
14 SERVO 12.2013
EVENTS
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
