RESEARCH: RoboGames (aka ROBOlympics) - The World's Largest Robot Competition
RoboGames (Previously ROBOlympics) is an annual robot contest held in San Mateo, California. The most recent RoboGames wa held April 27-29, 2018. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the 2005 RoboGames held the record for the world’s largest robot completion until being surpassed by VEX Worlds in 2016.
Competitions involve roboticists from around the world competing in over 50 different events: autonomously navigating robots, stair climbing, weight lifting, combat robots, fire-fighters, LEGO bots, hockey bots, walking humanoids, soccer bots, sumo bots, and kung-fu. About 2/3 of the robots events are autonomous while remaining 1/3 are remote controlled. Many of the popular events such as combat robotics are still remotely controlled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboGames
RoboGames events are divided into ten general categories:
Humanoids, for human-like robots
Sumo, where the robots push their opponents
Combat, where the object is to destroy one's opponent's robot
Junior League, a category for under-18s
Autonomous Autos, a navigation category
BEAM, a racing competition,
Art Bots, for aesthetically pleasing robots
Robot Soccer, a soccer competition
Autonomous Humanoid Challenges
Open, a miscellaneous category
