Baltic Robot Sumo Competition
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 29 of October , 2009 at 3:07 am
We make it to some robot competitions in person here on BotJunkie, most of which are within 5 bucks worth of gas money from our world headquarters on my sofa here in Berkeley California. We also cover a bunch of other competitions around the country, and even internationally, but most of what we hear about comes from Japan or Europe. There are robotics communities all over the world, though, and they meet up at events like the Baltic Robot Sumo Cup, which was held in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Events included Mini-Sumo, 3kg-Sumo, and Roomba-Sumo:
It looks like it was a fairly large and definitely successful event, with the help of some seriously top-tier sponsors like iRobot and ABB, who I kinda wish I’d see on event banners around here more often.
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Category: Competitive
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Comment by Zog
Made Thursday, 29 of October , 2009 at 6:59 pm
I love that these have gotten so good now that they give their handlers problems getting them out of the ring. They are going to have to program in some sort of stand down request.
Comment by Melissa
Made Friday, 30 of October , 2009 at 6:49 am
We have to go to this.