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Robotics Festival


What:

Local teams show off their creativity and robot making skills before shipping the robots to the regional and national competitions. Come watch several large robots try to maneuver around obstacles, dunk balls into goals, balance on the Dangerous Bridge, and rescue each other. Many smaller robots from the UW and Seattle Robotics Society will be showing off in between matches. See robotic sumo wrestling, soccer, maze maneuvering, and more.

Who:

Rainier Roboteers (UW-Bellarmine team hosted at EE department), Titan Robotics, Seattle Robotics Society, UW EE Lego robots, and more!

When: Saturday, February 17, 2001 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Where:

The Bank Of America Pavilion Annex (North of The Bank of America Arena and South of the IMA on the UW campus). You can find a map at http://www.washington.edu/students/maps/map.cgi?EDP.

For more details, visit the Rainier Roboteers website at http://www.ee.washington.edu/techsite/robotics/. You can also click here to download the event flier (a 205KB PDF document).

We are grateful to our sponsors: The University of Washington (Departments of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science and Engineering, The Mary Gates Fund, UW IEEE Branch, SEAL Lab), Ford Motor Company, Pacific Integrated Handling, Bosch, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Microsoft, Tektronix, Fluke, Honeywell, and the Seattle Robotics Society.