March 19, 2004
ROBOlymics
San Francisco will be hosting the first ever ROBOlympics competition. This should be pretty neat, though most of the entries appear to be remote controlled rather than trully autonomous robots. Still, there should be a lot of good stuff to look at.
Posted by elkaim at March 19, 2004 2:45 PMFearsome BattleBots, fearless fire-fighting robots, finely-tuned soccer-playing robot teams, sumo bots and robots built by students will be on display at the SF Commonwealth Club in a rock-em, sock-em preview of the first ever international Robot Olympics—ROBOlympics—to be held in San Francisco next month.
Robot-builders young and old, American, English, and Japanese, will be in attendance to provide live demonstrations and explanations of their ROBOlympians. This will be an exclusive chance to get close to the builders—amateur engineers from many walks of life with dramatic stories—before they enter into the heat of competition. Interviews may be conducted in a friendly atmosphere with complimentary cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.
While many different robot events exist around the world, ROBOlympics will be the first ever to bring them all together in a single place and time. San Francisco is the birthplace to such world famous robot competitions as the internationally televised BattleBots and Robot Wars, and ROBOlympics represents a triumphant return of this booming mechanical pastime to its rightful home—while including robots competitions from around the world, both long-standing and nascent.