International Robotics Olympiad

If you are a desi geek into robotics then you must try yourself at the international contest. International robotics Olympiad 2007 is going to be held at Singapore from November 27th to 30th.

If you are too young probably your mom will not let you all the way there!! .These are the contest for the above 18 age group to Singapore.

Robo Basketball
Robo Boxing
Robo Marathon
Robo BalancingBeam
Robo WeightLifting
RoboSoccer (Hurosot)

Most of the robots are meant to be autonomous. The not very popular IROC seems to have showcased some good robots last year. I’d given a good-full search for the videos but the one below was the only and the most impressive of all.

SHAASTRA ROBOTICS COVERAGE at Invobot

Internet offers you just about anything in robotics. Any circuit any design , its here. But then i personally felt that those are very much  unorganised and also not the ones actually done by each of them. there’s a lot of plagiarising.  Now this shaastra , Robotics FEST at IIT,CHENNAI. is a key event and i’m planning to individually cover all the robots and the great minds who have built them. If possible with the circuits that they used. So keep hooked to the this page…. in three days you’l find hundreds of posts with a lots of information and news.

shaatra Robotics : Problem Statement

Shaasta is IIT-M Fest. It features a lot of comtestbut the one that drags into my interest in the RObotic contest. Well the contest runs through somewhere in the month of october. Registrations are done with your E-Mail Id’s .There are three robotic contests this time.

Get more information at http://www.shaastra.org/

Will put more details on contests and ideas to make bots soon. keep a watch on this space.

Microsoft Bot Contest!! “Now Create Robots with Microsoft”

Well Gates doesn’t want you to make any bot to count his money nor his associates around the world. The contest is to make a bot for MSN messenger. Hey wait did MSN sound to you like an internet messaging service.. yeah you are right. Then what Bot to make??well you’l understand if you do this.

–>Open you msn messenger: all window versions will have one installed.
–> now if you donot have a hotmail id get it registered (you’l need it anyway to comtest) then once you have signid in into MSN messenger with your Id just add these contacts:
samplebot@hotmail.com
secretarybot@hotmail.com
alice@worldofalice.com
cox@mamute.org
recipesfinder@hotmail.com
processbot@hotmail.com
xboxRobot@hotmail.com
santa.robot@hotmail.com
dubyabot@hotmail.com
chat@insidemessenger.com
and talk to them!!!

–>Hi, found them talking stange?? Well don’t get surprised , They are the robots microsoft wants us to make.

I wondered if this was about robots at all ?? do you. (leave a comment about this. A topic to be diuscussed) . Wellthis is a contest that can fetchyou upto 20 laks in INR and $40,000 if you win. Microsoft gives lnk to three robot builders to write up you code. suggestions of the extent to which they would want that robot to work for you to make your winning chance better is all discussed in their webpage. Link upto them here

http://www.robotinvaders.com/main/default.aspx

Try it out. I found that the best part in creating it is to decide your response for various question. I wrote up one to make the user say “sorry” before the bot ever responded to him, he he he… it was FUN. i crated and tested it only on my computer and not on the network. i downloaded the ‘Conversagent™ BuddyScript SDK‘. but will soon download Akonix® L7 Builder™ SDK but its about a 102Mb .

You’l have to download the IDE’s and create your bot and set it up in a place which they provide at http://www.improvcenter.com/ and then submit to the contest. Registration essentiually means submiting your dfinished robot.

Try it out . Its open for students an professionals and just about anybody, Who knows you can chill out with some cash at the end of it.

–Madan
P.S:-
–>In case you are contestint pls comment it here so that you can help people who do not know what to do further once they are stuck somewhere!!

–>I personally have nothing with MSN or microsoft but i think this contest is just about a great stategy to get more people sign up with MSN and popularise the IDE’s.Hey don’t get suspicious, do try it.

Techfest ’07: Dates announced

Techfest , If you've not heard of it is IIT Bombay's techical fest that features Robotics as one of the major events. Techfest rocks Mumbai steets,colleges and the colleges around the country. It features cool cash prices upto $1000 for most of its robotic events.

Techfest 2007 Will be held from 26th to 28th of january.These Three days that will bring roboteers around th country to one place,will be great place to be in.
You can get more details as the days go by at:

http://www.techfest.org/

Techfest '06 featured roboitcs contests like Micromouse, and another Agrobot to plant sapslings after it had dug a hole and if i am right one another contest featured making a bot that was more like a vaccum cleaner to me to pick up something spillwd on the ground,The contest was to just clean the arena.But then Micromouse still remiains one of the major contest around there.If you are here around in India you should never miss out on such an event.

Meet you there!!!

–Madan
P.S:-IIT Bombay is located a Powai around the Powai lake about an hour journey from the Mumbai Airport.Tall appartments and an amazing city.Techfest '06 is One of the most memorable events in my life and i had great fun.Will be there this time too.