How Do I Participate?

You can participate in RoboFesta in two ways, either as an event organiser or as a competitor (you may even want to do both).

At first, we're looking for people keen to help organise the events that will be staged mainly in 2004, along with a series of 'training events' in the years leading up to it. You can mail the RoboFesta Committee members if you think you'd like to get involved in this way.

As a potential competitor, the best thing for you to do is start building some robots. There is plenty of information about robots on the web, and several robot kits are starting to appear in larger toyshops. You may also find our links page useful.

Although the RoboFesta-UK Festival Year won't be until 2004, we hope to see a range of preliminary 'training events' before then. An open meetin held on November 1st at the Open University campus in Milton Keynes discussed the future for RoboFesta-UK. If you would like to know more about this meeting, please visit the Inaugural Open Meeting webpage. We hope to have a co-ordination meeting in Autumn 2003 for organisers planning robotics related events during 2003/4.

Competition Rules

One of the aims of the RoboFesta movement is to provide an Olympics style event in which as wide a variety of robot competitions are supported. This includes providing events suitable for all ages and skill levels.

You can get some idea of the potential range of competitions from the Japanese RoboFesta website (RoboFesta competition rules).

Competitions & Challenges

		A table-top robot football competition, particularly appropriate as a team buiilding exercise for children
		Micromouse is a maze-solving competition in which small robots must traverse a maze in as short a time as possible.
RoboCup		Rules for RoboCup leagues (simulation league, small-size league, middle-size league, Sony four legged robot league, humanoid league)
RoboCup/AAAI Rescue Robot League		Supporting disaster rescue and recovery

As RoboFesta-UK events are scheduled, we will provide rules for the competitions they involve on this page. In the meantime, here is a list of rules for other robot competitions.

Organising & Advisory Committees - United Kingdom

RoboFesta Europe is organised on a country by country basis.

The UK Advisory Committee is currently: