Having already blown our entire travel budget attending CES, E3, and various other important events in sunny locations, we weren't able to scrape together the funds to hit up this year's annual
RoboGames festival in San Francisco, but luckily Make magazine/blog has filled in the void by providing some excellent coverage. Formerly known as the ROBOlympics, the event has grown to over 20 categories and demonstrations, covering some of the same territory we saw at the
Eastern Canadian Robot Games -- such as sumo wrestling, fire-fighting, and line-following -- but also throwing in a little
RoboCup-style
soccer football, a new 3-on-3 hockey tournament, and even a trio of so called Tetsujin events in which otherwise unathletic individuals sport hydraulic
mech suits which enable them to perform amazing feats of speed, strength, and dexterity. Besides sponsoring a display table among the likes of Lego and NASA, Make also has its Media Maker Bre Pettis filing daily videocasts and flickr photosets from the scene, featuring such Engadget faves as Vstone's
Robovie-M, Kondo's
KHR-1, and HiTec's Robonova as well as several other non-competitive models like Mark Sherman's
snakebot and a rig that can play and seemingly defeat children at Connect Four. You can follow the links below to get a feel for all the action, and stay tuned to Make because Day 3 coverage is only starting to trickle in.
Read- RoboGames site
Read- Make @ RoboGames
Read- RoboGames Day 1
Read- RoboGames Day 2
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
marc @ Jun 18th 2006 10:21PM
D'oh!!! i can't believe i missed this (and the make fair) engadget needs to set up a calender or something so i can finally catch one of these things BEFORE they happen.
GoRobotics.net @ Jun 18th 2006 11:05PM
Marc,
It might not be quite as impressive, but you can always go to RoboNexus (http://www.robonexus.com/). I went last year and had fun.
-------
http://www.gorobotics.net
joey @ Jun 19th 2006 10:28AM
well, i would need one of those mech suits to get me to run at all. it makes me proud to say that all of those bots are more athletic than i will ever be. who's going to wired's nextfest?
james @ Jun 19th 2006 12:13PM
Well, I for one would have loved to go see this...