Is there an amateur competition for autonomous robots?

Not the big expensive ones for the 100.000€ 2m tall biped robots built by whole teams, but more a sportsmanship class, like small costs, just drive through a city for example?

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dusty_raven@discuss.online · 12 pts · 144d (2 replies)
RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 144d (1 reply)

Fasinating machines. I think Veritasium made a video about them.

queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 143d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMQbHMgK2rw

It's a fun watch if you are at all interested in robots. He goes through the evolution of the competition and some of the tech breakthroughs that have impacted it.

Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 144d (1 reply)

https://www.firstinspires.org/programs/fll/

It's the entry level competition from the same people who make the competition with those 2m tall robots.

I participated in their mid level one (18 inch / half meter cube size, metal parts) when I was in high school.

Canopyflyer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 143d

Nationals is going on in Houston this weekend. A local robotics club here flew there on Spirit.

They're supposed to fly back to O'Hare tomorrow. Kind of wonder what they're going to do.

e0qdk@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 144d

Is BotBall still a thing? They had that (waaay) back when I was in high school, at least.

aburrito@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 144d

probably

Natanael@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 144d

Probably not any big professional ones, but there tends to be regional educational focused competitions in this style