Robot Competitions in the World

• RoboCup The official home page for the international Robot Soccer competition
• RoboCup Applications CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences
• 6.270 Autonomous Robot Design Competition MIT's famous robot competition
• AAAI Mobile Robot Competition Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• Aerial Robotics Competition This is the place for smart helicopters and blimps
• All-Japan Robot Sumo Worlds largest robot competition with 3000 robots entered!
• BattleBots The most dangerous collection of battling robots in the world. Two hundred pound monsters who's only goal is to destroy the competition!
• BEAM Their minimalist approach to robotics results in simple robots and fun competitions
• BotBall Teams of High School students have six weeks to design, build, and program a mobile robot
• Bot Bash People who like to build robots and then go out and smash them into each other
• Canada First Robotic Games Sponsored by businesses to motivate students and expand the pool of "technology literate" graduates
• EuroBot Annual autonomous robot competition in France
• Fire Fighting Robot Contest Autonomous robots extinguish fires in a maze
• FIRST Corporations sponsor local High Schools across the US. Over 300 robots expected at the next event
• Intelligent Robot Contest Sendai, Japan. Includes pictures for those of us who can't read Japanese
• International Festival of Sciences and Technologies France's big robot competition includes walking machines and Soccer
• Techno Games 2000 TV show featuring "Mechathletes" in a "Technology Olympics"
• Micromouse Competition The UC Davis Micromouse page
• MIROSOT The Micro-Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament
• North East Indiana Robot Games Three weight classes of Robot Sumo Mayhem
• OCAD Sumo Robot Challenge Bashing/crashing/smashing robots sponsored by the Ontario College of Art & Design
• RoboRama Robot competition sponsored by the Dallas Personal Robotics Group
• Robot Battles Head-to-head combat with other 'bots
• Robot Rumbles Canadian Robotic Destruction!
• Robot Sumo The annual competition held at the Exploratorium in San Francisco also features rope climbing, maze, and other events
• Robot Wars A TV show in the UK
• Robot Vacuum Cleaner Contest Fastest robot to vacuum 1/2 pound of rice wins!
• Robothon The annual competition of the Seattle Robotics Society
• Singapore Robotic Games Eleven different competitions including legged robot race, wall climbing, and "robot battlefield"
• SME Student Robotic Challenge Long-running competition sponsored by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers
• Trinity LEGO Cybernetics Challenge A game of robot Volley Ball between teams of two robots built using Lego Mindstorms