BotJunkie @ RoboGames 2008

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 17 of June , 2008 at 5:35 am

I don’t know about you, but here at BotJunkie, this past weekend was all about RoboGames. Okay, and maybe one or two other things. But still… If for some reason you couldn’t make it to San Francisco, you totally missed out on the 504 (!) robots competing in 58 different events. Pictures and video are a poor substitute for the sheer visceral experience of live and up close robot competition, but I think you’ll agree that it was a pretty badass event:

More pics, after the jump.

There are a bunch more clips on YouTube, and you can check out tons more photos via Crabfu. I don’t know about you, but this has absolutely inspired me to build a combat robot of my very own. With a flamethrower.

Complete RoboGames 2008 results available here.

Oh, and before I forget: mad props to the man himself, David Calkins, the mastermind (some might say evil mastermind) behind RoboGames, RoboExoticUS, and ComBots.

[ RoboGames 2008]

Special thanks to Melissa, proprietress of Honeycomb Jewelry, for video assistance at RoboGames.

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Made Wednesday, 18 of June , 2008 at 8:05 pm

Can you believe that the rookie Austrian humanoid soccer team upset the Americans? What’s up with that? Team USA needs to fire it’s manager…

Comment by ethan

Made Thursday, 19 of June , 2008 at 1:44 pm

Isn’t it a little odd that the same robot that lost it’s balance and fell was the robot chosen to do the break dance moves?

And secondly, WHY COULDN’T I HAVE GONE!!? Well besid’s the fact that i have NO $$ and live in Nebraska.

nice vid.

Comment by Mike D

Made Tuesday, 13 of January , 2009 at 3:30 am

hi i like what i see and i am a future novice in robotic i always wanted to do the battle bots thing. i was wondering if you think the sport is dieing out i too live in Nebraska and well i can barly afford the bot so obviously i can afford to drive 100’s of miles for it to be destroyed it there a place where i can find a lager list of organizations?