Servo - March 2014

MARCH

6-9 Techkriti RoboGames

IIT, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

University competition with several events for autonomous robots

www.techkriti.org/#/competitions/robogames

8-9 METU Robotics Days

METU Culture & Convention Center, Turkey

Events this year include: Sumo, Mini Sumo, Minefield, Line Following, Robot Triathalon, Search and Rescue, and Freestyle.

http://topluluk.odturobotgunleri.org.tr

14-15 AMD Jerry Sanders Creative Design Contest

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

Autonomous and remote-controlled robot compete in teams on playing fields with ramps, colored cones, and other elements to score points.

http://jsdc.ec.illinois.edu

16-20 APEC Micromouse Contest

Fort Worth Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX

Small high speed maze-solving robots compete to find their way through a complex maze in the shortest possible time.

www.spec-conf.org

20-22 Festival de Robotique

Stade Uniprix, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Events include FIRST LEGO, FRC, FLL, jrFLL, and Zone01.

http://festivalderobotique.ca

21-23 Cognizance

IIT Roorkee, India

This student competition includes a variety of events for autonomous and remote controlled robots

http://cognizance.org.in

22 Manitoba Robot Games

Tec Voc High School, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Events include Sumo, Mini Sumo, Mini Tractor Pull, Super Scramble, Line Following, and, for the kids, Robo-Critters.

www.scmb.mb.ca

27-31 Apogee iStrike

BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa, India

Autonomous robots must navigate roadways while following traffic signals and avoiding obstacles.

www.bits-apogee.org

29-30 RobotChallenge

Vienna, Austria

Events include Sumo, Mini Sumo, Micro Sumo, Parallel Slalom, and Enhanced Slalom.

www.robotchallenge.org

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

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