Competitions

Jerry Sanders Design Competition - The Jerry Sanders Design Competition is open to anyone who can build a robot.
http://dc.cen.uiuc.edu/

Istrobot - Annual contest in Slovakia includes linefollower, micromouse, minisumo, and a free style category.
http://www.robotika.sk/contest/

K'nex K-Bot World Championship - Information including rankings and rulebook.
http://www.livingjungle.com/

CNET - Robots ready to rumble - RoboGames (formerly called Robolympics) in San Francisco gives machines a chance to show their stuff in contests from sumo to soccer. An article by Richard Shim. <small>(March 25, 2005)</small>
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1041_3-5637327.html

Robot Competition FAQ - Information and dates for all known Robot-related competitions and contests. Updated monthly and posted to comp.robotics.misc and news.answers.
http://robots.net/rcfaq.html

BEST Robotics Inc - BEST stands for Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology. BEST is a non-profit organization that promotes team problem solving aided by local industry volunteers, teachers, and mentors through yearly competitions.
http://www.bestinc.org

Trinity College Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest - A challenge to build a computerized robot that can detect a fire and then put it out. Includes rules, registration information, photos, and a FAQ.
http://www.trincoll.edu/events/robot/

RoboGames - Annual competition in San Francisco, formerly known as RobOlympics. Classes and their rules, results and pictures from previous years, registration and ticket information.
http://robogames.net/

Binkey's Robot Rumbles for 1-15 pound bots - Test your 1-15 pound bot in one-on-one battles, a maze, and speed way. Competition in Sarnia, Ontario.
http://www.angelfire.com/my/robotsite/

Robot Riots robot combat event - Robot Riots robot combat event in Toronto - check site for latest event. Part of the Toronto Robot Fight Club.
http://www.robotriots.com

ArtBots Robot Talent Show - An international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots. Awards for "Artist Choice" and "Audience Choice".
http://artbots.org/

Eurobot - A technical, scientific and entertaining challenge organised in France for students from engineering schools, universities or for private scientific clubs.
http://www.eurobot.org/

Robotics Contest - Programming contest related to robotics and mechanics held in Timisoara, Romania in 19/01/2001.
http://www.mecrob.iwarp.com

Robotic Gladiator - A site featuring news, tutorials, and forums for robotic competition.
http://www.roboticgladiator.com

Robot Crusade - Robot combat group that sponsors events in the United Kingdom. News, event listing, rules and sign-up information.
http://www.robotcrusade.com/

AUVSI Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition - The goals of this competition are to challenge a new generation of engineers to design and build autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) capable of performing realistic missions in the underwater environment. Information on rules, results, photographs, and prizes.
http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/water.cfm

The Builders Database - Provides registration and tracking resources for robot competitions. Includes interface for teams and event organizers, and public pages describing the entries by category.
http://www.buildersdb.com/

Manitoba Robot Games - Canadian robot games which include, Atomic Hockey , Robotic Sumo Wrestling, Robotic "Seek and Capture", Mini-Tractor Pull, and Robo-Critters.
http://www.mbrobotgames.ca/

6.270 - MIT's Autonomous Robot Design Competition - Provides description of class and robot competition contestants. Includes an overview of previous contests.
http://web.mit.edu/6.270/www/

Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition - This site has information on the annual competition where college students design and construct autonomous ground vehicles to compete in the Autonomous Challenge Competition Vehicle Design Competition and Navigation Challenge Competition. The site consists of Location and date, rules, team photographs, entry application, news, and results from previous competitions.
http://www.igvc.org/