Competitions In General
Robo Cup
RoboCupTM is an international research and education initiative. Its goal is to foster artificial intelligence and robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be examined and integrated.
RoboCupSoccer
The main focus of the RoboCup activities is competitive football. The games are important opportunities for researchers to exchange technical information. They also serve as a great opportunity to educate and entertain the public. RoboCupSoccer is divided into the following leagues: Simulation league, Small-size robot league, Middle-size robot league, Standard Platform league, Humanoid league
RoboCupRescue
Disaster rescue is one of the most serious issues involving very large numbers of heterogeneous agents in a hostile environment. The intention of the RoboCupRescue project is to promote research and development in this significant domain by involving multi-agent team work coordination, physical robotic agents for search and rescue, information infrastructures, personal digital assistants, standard simulator and decision support systems, evaluation benchmarks for rescue strategies and robotic systems that are all integrated into a comprehensive system in future. RoboCupRescue is divided into two leagues: RoboCupRescue Robot League and RoboCupRescue Simulation League
RoboCup@Home
RoboCup@Home focuses on real-world applications and human-machine interaction with autonomous robots. The aim is to promote the development of robots that will aid humans in everyday life.
The scenario involves the home itself. Participants are given an environment that involves a kitchen, a living room, and possibly more. Contestants then demonstrate their robots' abilities in this environment.
The first demonstration was held in 2007 Bremen.
RoboCupJunior
RoboCupJunior is a project-oriented educational initiative that sponsors local, regional and international robotic events for young students. It is designed to introduce RoboCup to primary and secondary school children, as well as undergraduates who do not have the resources to get involved in the senior leagues yet. The focus of the Junior league lies on education. The tournament offers to the participants the chance to take part in international exchange programmes and to share the experience of meeting peers from abroad.
Information: www.robocup.org
Eurobot
Created in 1998, Eurobot is a international amateur robotics contest open to teams of young people, organised either in student projects or in independent clubs.Eurobot takes place in Europe but also welcomes countries from other continents.
EUROBOT values, fair play, solidarity, technical knowledge sharing and creativity both through techniques and project management more than competition. The contest aims at interesting the largest public to robotics and at encouraging the group practice of science by youth. EUROBOT and its national qualifications are intended to take place in a friendly and sporting spirit. Thus, more than an engineering championship for young people, EUROBOT is a friendly pretext to technical imagination and exchange ideas, know-how, hints and engineering knowledge around a common challenge. Creativity is at stake and interdisciplinarity requested. Technical and cultural enrichment is the goal. To conclude, at this competition everyone wins in knowledge, experience and friendship : those who are awarded of course, but also those who didn't manage to make their robot work properly and were eliminated during the matches.
Information: www.eurobot.org
Robogames in San Francisco
RoboGames is the world's largest open robot competition (even the Guinness Book of World Records says so!) We invite the best minds from around the world to compete in over 70 different events. Combat robots, walking humanoids, soccer bots, sumo bots, and even androids that do kung-fu. Some robots are autonomous, some are remote controlled - but they're all cool!
Information: www.robogames.net
Robot-Challenge in Vienna
TheRobot-Challenge is the biggest competition in Austria for self-made, autnomous and mobile robots. The RobotChallenge is an event hosted by the Austrian Society for innovative Computer Science (InnoC) in cooperation with the Austrian Ministry of Science.
Contests: Parallelslalom, Slalom Enhanced, Standard Sumo, Mini-Sumo, Micro-Sumo, Freestyle
Information: www.robotchallenge.org
Robot-SM in Göteborg
The Swedish Championships of Robotics is a competition and an event for everyone with an interest in the technology of tomorow. The main attractions are the fights between atonomous robots in Sumo and Pentatlon.
Contests: Standard Sumo, Mini-Sumo, Robotics Pentathlon
Information: www.robotsm.se
