Competitions

RoboGames

RoboGames (ROBOlympics) hosts over 70 different events and is modeled on the human Olympics. Robot soccer, sumo, combat, android wrestling, maze solving, fire-fighting, biped races, balancer races, and exoskeletons are a few of the events held. Teams compete from around the world, and it is open to anyone. It is also free for kids under 18 to compete.

Vehicle competitions

Air vehicles
This competition involves fully autonomous flying robots performing tasks that. The competition is open to universities and has had missions involving ground object capture and transfer, dangerous waste location and identification, disaster scene search and rescue, etc. In 2008 an $80,000 winner-take-all prize will be awarded, the prize depens from the type of robot.

Ground vehicles

However, the 2005 prize of $2,000,000 was claimed by Stabdford University. It is a competition for autonomous ground vehicles that must cross outdoor obstacle courses without any human interaction.

Underwater vehicles

The AUVSI and the U.S. Office of Naval Research have sponsored the International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition since 1997. This too is a collegiate competition.

RoboCup

It is a competitive organization dedicated to developing a team of fully autonomous humanoids robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team by the year 2050. There are many different leagues ranging from computer simulation, to full-size humanoids robots. The field where they play is special.

RoboCup Junior is a competition for primary and secondary school aged students. RoboCup Junior includes three competitions:

• Rescue: an obstacle course in which a robot must follow a line to retrieve an object, and bring it back to safety as fast as possible

• Dance: robots are designed to dance to music and are judged on criteria such as creativity and costumes.
• Soccer: two robots per team play autonomously in a game of soccer. We have here a game, to play football as a robot, click here.