From: mwtilden@watmath.waterloo.edu (Mark W. Tilden)
Subject: Robot Competitions and Conferences List
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 15:13:23 GMT



Ok.  Here's a list of upcoming robot competitions as far as I know.
Most of these have been extracted from conference announcements I've
saved from the net.  Contact the organizers for more details,
but if you know of any other robot competitions, please send me 
details and I'll update this list.

I quote:

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July 92,
  "AAAI is planning to hold a robot competition at the national
   conference in San Jose in July of 1992.  The competition will be open
   to all manner of reasonably sized robots and will involve a variety of
   events.  The details of the competition are still evolving; however,
   to make people aware of the competition and to get things started, a
   tentative specification and set of rules have been put together.  If
   you are interested in participating in this competition, please send
   preliminary event to be held in conjunction with the AAAI Spring
   Symposia Series held at Stanford in March of 1992. It is important to
   note that this competition is meant to be fun and educational more
   than anything else."

Contact: tallis@starbase.mitre.com (Hans Tallis)

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June 92,
"AlifeIII will be holding a greatly expanded "Artificial 4H Show,"
involving exhibits of, judging among, and contests between, various
software and hardware artificial life forms. People who wish to enter
their artificial organisms in the "Artificial 4H Show" should send
a description of what they plan to exhibit to the address below. We
will be announcing a series of contests and challenges for robots,
genetic algorithms, and software life forms soon. Some of these will
carry cash-prizes. All contests and challenges will be carried out
during the workshop."

Contact: alife@sfi.santafe.edu

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July 6-17, 1992,
"CACS92 is an international summer school to be held in Aix
en Provence, France, July 6-17, 1992 on comparative approaches to
cognitive science.  During the summer school, the Ecole d'Art d'Aix will
simultaneously organize a series of artistic activities and
demonstrations including conferences, workshops, and shows, for
which artists of many nationalities have been invited to
contribute works along themes related to those of the planned
summer school (artificial life, behavioral organization,
networks, interconnectedness, robots, animal behavior, etc.).
Many opportunities for interaction among the scientific and
artistic participants will be available."

Contact: roitblat@uhunix.bitnet     meyer@wotan.ens.fr
roitblat@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu     meyer@frulm63.bitnet

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NCAI-92 Robot Exhibition (no other info available.  Students only, I think).

Contact:   Thomas Dean
           Brown University
           Department of Computer Science
           Box 1910
           Providence, RI 02912
           (401) 863-7657 (FAX)
           tld@cs.brown.edu

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September 16-20, 1992, Kobe, Japan
(IMACS/SICE RM S'92 Kobe)
 Robotics, Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems '92 Kobe

"An international exhibition and technical visits related to the above
topics will be held during the Symposium.  Post-Symposium tours to
leading manufacturers and research laboratories will be arranged.
There will also be family programs for visiting scenic spots."

Contact: Prof. Toshi TAKAMORI (imacs@in.kobe-u.ac.jp)
 
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Date: April 9-11, 1992 (Over, but you can pump for details)
The sixth annual SAE robotic walking machine decathlon.
Location: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
"This is a student competition, each machine must be designed,
assembled, tested, and operated substantially by a team of
undergraduate students.  Each team may have one or more advisers
representing the faculty of the school."

Arrangements Chairman:   Dr. Gordon K. F. Lee
                         North Carolina State University
                         Raleigh, North Carolina
                         27695
                         (919) 515-2365

(My email contact was not the above. jn163051@longs.lance.colostate.edu)

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May 8, 1992, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
SAIT Robot Sumo Competition

Contact: Craig Maynard
8028 Huntington Road NE
Calgary, Alberta
T2K-5A4
jcmaynard@acdm.SAIT.AB.CA

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April 22-25, 1993,
Second International BEAM Robot Olympics Competition:
Ontario Science Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

"The BEAM Robot Olympics is not so much a series of technological
competitions as a chance for robot enthusiasts to present their 
designs to each other, the press, and the public.  It is also a 
open forum for anyone who wants to get started in the field to 
compete and compare.  Any and every robot will be considered so 
long as it does not come from a kit or store.  Robots of similar
ability will be pitted against each other in simple competitions, but
generally robots will be judged on sophistication of behavior, novelty 
of design, efficiency of power source, and quality of hardware.

Details will soon be posted.  On-line rules soon available.  There
are also two Robot Olympic Trial Games scheduled for this fall (in 
Canada), but details will have to wait until September.

Contact: mwtilden@watmath.uwaterloo.ca


Is all.


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