Robotics Competition in University- Doors to be Unlocked

Today world is now getting interested in robots. The major cause for that there is a lot of developments waiting in this new type of artificial intelligence. Several competitions have been held different countries in order to promote chances for upcoming generation to prove themselves. Robotics competitions in different universities play a vast role for creating future programmers and robot designers.

In a robotics competition, each of the robots has to complete a task, depending on student level. The robot who can accomplishes the task in most efficient way or closes most in accomplishing it, becomes the winner. However it is not all about winning or losing, the purpose of the game is to understand the motto.

There are different types of competitions which are well known to all. Some of them are discussed here. Many universities take place in those competitions in order to show their talents as well as increase university’s reputation.

The DARPA grand Challenge, which is a competition for driving cars without drivers are being arranged in almost every year. The rules of this contest are to drive in a predefined path with spending the smallest amount of time. RoboGames is recognized as the largest robot competition in the world (according to Guinness Book of World Records).

This game is formatted like human Olympics. RoboGames organizes 70 individual events including Robot soccer, combat, sumo, maze solving, biped races etc. There are no bindings of ages or occupations to participate in contest. There are many other competitions arranged by technical organizations and universities such as Centennial Challenges by NASA, off-road robotics competition by Finland robot association, IEEE micro mouse competition, SAURO by Sakaraya University, Duke Annual Robo-Climb Competition (DARC) by Duke University, AAAI Grand Challenges, TAURO in Istanbul, FIRST robotics competition, BEST etc.

To take participation in University robotics competition, you have to choose the team players according to the rules and regulations. The criteria for choosing them vary according to the goal of competitions. The team mates are generally ranged from 10 to hundred. But they must be very much reliable, quick decision makers, good programmers and above all hard working. You have to manage sponsors if University is unable to provide financial supports.

Robots will be an essential part of human race in upcoming future. So it is a good work to arrange robotics competition in universities. New ideas and efforts are often seen in this type of contest which really broadens the horizon of robot technology.