Servo - May 2015

MAY

2 Micromouse+

Twindly Bridge Charter School, Wasilla, AK

Students build robots to solve a maze using a simplified variant of the micromouse rules.

http://twindlybridge.us/micromouse.html

2 RoboRave

Albuquerque, NM

Events include Jousting, Line following, Triathlon, Fire Fighting, Aerial, and Robotovate.

www.roborave.org

15-16 RoboFest

Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI

This year's challenge is called RoboBowl.

http://robofest.net

16 Dallas Personal Robotics Group RoboRama

Dallas, TX

Events include Big Table Top 2, Can Can Soccer, Plastic Fastner Sumo, and Line Following.

www.dprg.org

21-24 Swiss Eurobot

Yverdon-les-Bains, La Marive, Switzerland

Swiss regional for the Eurobot competition.

www.swisseurobot.ch

23 NATCAR

UC Davis Campus, Davis, CA

High-speed autonomous robot cars race along a line following track that relies on a magnetic field rather than a painted line.

www.ece.ucdavis.edu/natcar

26-30 ICRA Robot Challenge

Seattle, WA

Events this year include the Amazon Picking Challenge, Humanoids Applications Challenge, IEEE RAS MNRA Mobile Microbotics Challenge, and the Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Challenge.

www.icra2015.org

28-30 University Rover Challenge

Mars Desert Research Station, Hanksville, UT

Student-built planetary rovers must navigate an extreme desert environment.

http://urc.marssociety.org

29 SPURT

Technology Park Warnemunde Rostock, Germany

Student-built robots race on the SPURT track.

http://spurt.uni-rostock.de

30 National SeaPerch Challenge

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Dartmouth, MA

Student-built ROVs compete in underwater challenge.

www.seaperch.org/seaperch_challenge

31 Seattle Bot Battles

Seattle Center, Seattle, WA

RC vehicle destruction in 1 lb, 3 lb, and 12 lb classes.

www.westernalliedrobotics.com

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.