Important Updates

February 2012

Important: We remind all teams--Fire-Fighting and RoboWaiter--that there is a new specification for the audio start device in 2012 (see Rules, Section 2.7). The judges will apply this rule with no exceptions.

December 2011

Calling all humanoid robots to the 2012 RoboWaiter contest! Robotis will award a Bioloid Premium robot kit to the top-performing humanoid robot in RoboWaiter 2012. Many thanks to Robotis for this generous award. Visit http://www.robotis.com/xe/bioloid_en to see the Bioloid Premium kit.

November 2011

Robotis, Inc. will award a Bioloid Premium robot kit to the top-performing humanoid robot in the 2012 RoboWaiter competition. This exciting prize promotes the use of humanoid robots as assistive agents to help persons with disabilities. Stay tuned for more information.1

October 2011

The 2012 Firefighing and RoboWaiter rules posted for review and feedback. Please send your feedback to Ed Nisley (ed.nisley@ieee.org) with a copy to Dave Ahlgren (david.ahlgren@trincoll.edu).