Servo - December 2014

DECEMBER

4-7 ROBOEXOTICA

Vienna, Austria

Events include serving cocktails, mixing cocktails, bartending conversation, lighting cigars, and other achievements in electronic cocktail culture.

www.roboexotica.org

5-7 South's BEST Regional Championship

Auburn University, Auburn, AL Student teams using team-built robots compete in this regional for the BEST competition.

www.southsbest.org

6 RHU Robotics Competition

Rafik Hariri University Meshref Campus, Lebanon

Student-built autonomous robots compete in traditional robot Sumo.

www.facebook.com/ StudentTechnologyClub

JANUARY

22- ION Autonomous Snowplow 25 Competition

St. Paul, MN

Autonomous snowplow robots must remove snow along a designated path.

www.autosnowplow.com

28- Singapore Robotic Games 29 Tay Eng Soon Convention Centre, ITE Hdqrters, Singapore

Events include Sumo, Picomouse, Robot Soccer, Wall Climbing, Pole Balancing, Legged Robot Marathon, Underwater Robots, Intelligent Robot Contest, Robot Colony, and Humanoid Competition.

http://guppy.mpe.nus. edu.sg/srg/

30 Powered by Sun

Ostrava, Czech Republic

Race between autonomous solar-powered robots.

http://napajenislun cem.vsb.cz

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.