1. Robot Competitions & Research Today: Competitions and Research Monday: IME/CS Quiz Wednesday: –Project Trouble Shooting Day –Discussion of Presentations John-Hopkins Robotic Surgery Competition The challenge is to carry out a simulated surgery. Students have to design, build, and program a robot to find a tumor in the body and place a needle into it.

2. Robot Competitions: fun & research Some competitions are fun, awards, and accolades Some competitions help push the boundaries of research

3. IEEE Region 5 Competition IEEE Sponsored competition Team of ECE and CS students Objective changes each year

4. Beyond Botball KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR) Objective changes every year http://www.botball.org/current-season/beyond_botball.php

5. AAAI Competitions American Association of Artificial Intelligence Changes as challenges are met

6. AAAI USAR Competition” RoboCup Rescue http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/USAR/

7. AAAI Scavenger Hunt Robots search the conference hotel area for a checklist of given objects such as people or information located at specific locations or at a specific time. This task will require robots to navigate and map a dynamic area with moving objects/people in order to acquire objects to satisfy the checklist. http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dodds/aaai06/

8. Larger Events DARPA Grand Challenge –1/3 of all military vehicles will be autonomous by 2010. AAAI Grand Challenge –Robot Conference Presenter RoboCup: World Robot Soccer