The RoboGames are returning to San Francisco in April. Hey, Robots, you're on the same team!
RoboGames, now in its 7th year, is the world’s largest robotics competition. For this year’s contest they secured the 5,000 person San Mateo Expo Center, just outside of San Francisco. From April 23-25 this will be the hallowed grounds where thousands of contestants, controlling more than 500 robots, compete in 70+ events. Many of these events will be robot-on-robot battles such as biped kung-fu and robot sumo wrestling. There will also be an exciting new event this year called “mechwars.” Contestants will battle using walking robots, but their view will be restricted to a bot-mounted pov camera. They will then compete in a scale-model city with flamethrowers and CO2 powered rifles to take out their opponent. How hardcore is that! I was able to talk with founder David Calkins and get the scoop on how that competition and others makes the RoboGames better every year.
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