"Describes a variety of robot competitions held in the United States and around the world"--

Which robot is the biggest, the fastest, the smartest, or the strongest? Explore a variety of robot competitions and see how talented inventors score with their

Each year thousands of students of all ages enter robot competitions through their schools or other organizations. They can compete alone or as part of a team i

Personal robots are about as advanced today as personal computers were on the eve of the first IBM PC in the early 1980s. They are still the domain of hobbyists

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2012 and the 15th Robot World Congress, FIRA