Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Robot Racer - line followers in Japan

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

There has been some talk of changing the schools micromouse competitions. I am in favour of a more flexible line-following class of competitions. While doing a bit of research, I found many examples of the kind of thing I had in mind. Given that these competitions are much more popular ...

Rise of the Robots

Monday, March 24th, 2008

The National Space Centre is having a robot weekend in May this year: See robots from the TV series Robot Wars Compete in the battle arena Take part challenges to ...

RoboTIC 2007 results

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Weren't around for roboTIC, or intrigued by the results? These results were kindly supplied by Derek Hall.

Robosavvy bipeds at ROBOtic’07

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

The guys from Robosavvy forum have confirmed that they will yet again be demonstrating their bipedal wares at ROBOtic'07, and are intending to run several competitions. The bipeds were very well received at UK Micromouse 2007, and a promised demonstration of stair climbing could mean that they reach even greater heights ...

Half size micromouse contest

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

It seems that the Japanese organising committee for micromouse would like to update the rules to reduce mouse and maze to half its current size. Check out the Google-translated page: www.robomedia.org

Competitions

Friday, July 6th, 2007

ROBOtic'07 will be held on Saturday 24th November 2007 UK Micromouse 2008 will be held on Saturday 28th June 2008

Lego micromouse spotted

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

While testing out a new (to me) video search engine, I came across a Youtube video of a micromouse built from the new Lego NXT kit. Slow, to be sure, but convincing nonetheless. Have a look:

What is going on here?

Monday, June 18th, 2007

The micromouseonline site is going to get some extra content. We hope to publish news items of interest to the small robot builder as well as offering the user an opportunity to get some of their stuff published.The forum you are probably looking for is still here and you can ...