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.
— R. Steven Rainwater
12 SERVO 12.2014
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