News from robotika.sk
- 28.11. - 4.12. 2011
The European Robotics Week offers one week of various robotics related activities across Europe for the general public, highlighting growing importance of robotics in a wide variety of application areas. The Week aims at inspiring technology education in students of all ages to pursue careers in STEM-related fields, i.e. science, technology, engineering and math.
The participating companies, universities and research centres have come up with interesting programs to bring their robots and organisations to the attention of the public educating them on how robotics impacts society, both now and in the future.- List of events
- Visit on-line labs (prezentations, web-cams, on-line labs)
- Hanoi Tower - manipulator contest (closed)
More info about EU Robotics Week...
- 4. 7. 2011
July 4th, 2011 at 10:00 in the room BC-300 at the FEI STU (Ilkovičova 3,
Bratislava, Slovakia) there will be an interesting lecture
by the Martina Peniak (University at Plymouth)
from the area of robotics and cognitive sciences.
Lecture in English, discussion possible also in Slovak.
More information...
- 11. 6. 2011
All robot creators are invited to 2nd RoboOrienteering contest in
Rychnova nad Kněžnou , Czech Republic. This is an outdoor autonomous
robotic contest inspired by the RoboMagellan
contest.
This contest is easier than Robotour so it can serve as a starter.
The task is to drive to the predetermined coordination in free outdoor area.
Information on their webpage is in Czech only, so feel free to ask
organizers by mail.
More information...
LATEST:
- 21. 5. 2011
![[Robotem Rovne]](./images/logoRobotRovne.png)
Outdoor robotic contest organised by the Radioklub Písek, Czech Republic.
The task is to go as stright as possible in the local park. Robot or car
can use GPS, compass or camera, even no sensors. Registration till April, 15th.
Also a good training tor Robotour 2011 in Vienna.
More information...
- 4. - 5. 5. 2011
![[Robotu Intelektas]](./images/logoLitva2011.png)
The competition "Robot intelligence - 2011" is the first competition of
this kind in the Baltic region. The aim of this event is to encourage
interest in intelligent control systems, electronics, robotics, mechatronics,
and artificial intelligence among European youth.
The main task for participants of this competition: Your handmade robot(s) will have to find and fetch a 1 kilo "bag of gold". Robot, first to complete the task, will bring his creator a prize of 9000 Euros.
More information...
- 23. 4. 2011Robotic sumo championship will start April 23rd in Lithuanian Klaipeda. Categories 3kg sumo, Mini Sumo, Rumba Sumo, Linefollower. Interesting price more than 1000 EUR for the 3kg sumo winner. Also interesting contest with Peugeot pulling
More information...
Actual state: 98 [Linefollower: 50, Micromouse: 31, MiniSumo: 16, Freestyle: 15] - 9. 4. 2011
Eleventh annual international robotic contest with categories
Linefollower, Micromouse, Minisumo and Freestyle will start April 9th
at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.
More information...
- 31. 3. 2011
Freescale Semiconductor
Czech Republic is an organizer of the autonomous slot car racing tournament.
The task is to build and program autonomous slot car to be as fast as possible
on 10 round unknown race ring. First round can be used for mapping, then
the car should drive based on gathered information.
More information...
New:31. 3. 2011 local university contest at the STU Bratislava. Come to see!!! - 17. - 19. 3. 2011
National round of contest in building and programming robots for elementary and secondary
schools RoboCup Junior 2011 will take place at CZŠ sv. Jána Krstiteľa in Sabinov
on March 17th - 19th 2011. Categories:
- Construction - building and programming of robot to solve a given task
- Robot soccer - tournament of soccer playing robots with IR ball
- Robot rescue - tournament of rescue robots
- Dance - competition of dancing robots using costumes, props, light and other effects
- 13.11.2010
International robotic contest organized by the association KoNaR will take place at Wroclaw University.
Categories: Minisumo, Sumo, Line-follower, Free-style.
More information:
www.roboticarena.pl
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18. 9. 2010
At the FIRA World Championship in Indian Bangalore, TUKE Robotics team from Slovakia won
two gold medals. The team from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Technical University
in Košice won both final matches with the score 5:1 in the categories of 5 on 5 robots and
11 on 11 robots. More information:
www.robosoccer.sk
- 17. - 18. 9. 2010
Fifth annual contest Robotour - robotika.cz outdoor delivery contest
take place Sept. 18th in Bratislava, Botanic Garden. The robots obtained
only the target coordination. The use of OSM map is allowed only. The
starting position was also unknown. No human intervention was allowed.
More information...
Results: 1. Eduro Team, 2. Roboauto Quido, 3. Tatran Team & Radioklub Písek - 28. 6. - 12. 7. 2010
Summer School of Robotics at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava,
Slovakia. Organized in cooperation with the
Board of European Students of Technology (BEST). Take a chance to
cooperate for two weeks in an international team and have some fun
with robotics! Lectures, workshops, excursions and robots.
More information...
April 17th, 2010
Traditional contest of the mobile robots. Categories: Linefollower, Micromouse, MiniSumo, FreeStyle.
More info...
Status: [Total 109, Linefollower: 50, Micromouse: 23, MiniSumo: 29, FreeStyle: 13]
- 11. 2. 2010
Bratislava / Wien
A dozen of students from the three secondary schools in Bratislava
(Gymnasium Grösslingová, Novohradská and Teplická) did participate at the
first joint Slovak-Austrian lecture. The topic was really pioneering -
robotics.
More information...
- November 6th and 13th 2009
23 teams participated in a robotic contest of young pupils of age 10-16. Children brought autonomous robots built
of LEGO Mindstorms parts that were to complete 12 different tasks known from the start of September.
Participants also presented their research projects, and competed in their team work performance. The overall winner
in Bratislava is the team ANAGOONE, and in Kosice team GALEJE, both advancing to the Central European finals in Paderborn
on December 5th 2009.
Website of the contest with pictures...
- 26. 9. 2009
Competition Robotour 2009 takes part in the Lužánky park in Brno, Czech republic.
Together with the contest also an exhibition and presentations take part.
[Invitation]
More information...
- 25. 9. 2009
Bratislava: Researchers NightThis is a SOVVA organization activity to present a recent science activities in a certain Bratislava shopping center. This activity runs all over the Europe and also some robotics projects will present.
More information... - 3. 9. 2009
This year's challenge of FLL is now available - in Slovak translation, at the website of the contest FLL in Slovakia. Registration is open until September 30th. Welcome!
Contest website...
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30. 8. 2009
On August 18 - 20, the 14th World Championship in Robotic Soccer organized
by FIRA was held in Incheon in Korea.
Slovakia has been represented by the team of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering from Košice, TUKE Robotics. In the most popular category
"mirosot middle league", the team achieved third place. Final results:
1. Singapore, 2. China, 3. Slovakia. In category "mirosot large league",
the team achieved fourth place. More information, photos and videos
are available at their homepage:
www.robosoccer.sk
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3. 8. 2009
A beta-version of the Slovak translation of the NXC Guide of John Hansen - known open-source language for programming robotic building sets LEGO Mindstorms NXT is available for download.
Please send the typos and inquiries to:
ppetrovic
acm.org. The manual is available for download here:
NXC - Príručka programátora (PDF)
- 1. - 15. 8. 2009
Self-learning robots, robotic sailing boats or sophisticated robotic mechanics
were just some of the exciting topics that 24 students from all over Europe
got to grips with between 1st and 15th August. Scientists from Austria,
Slovakia and Great Britain gave these next-generation researchers a
fascinating insight into their research areas.
As well as lectures, the programme also included excursions and workshops, giving students hands-on experience and enabling them to bring their own robots to life.
More information...
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15. - 17. 5. 2008
The 14th year of contest in building and programming robots for elementary and secondary schools took place in Liptovsky Hradok. The contestants were solving a specified task in the construction category, and running their robots in the RoboSoccer, RoboRescue and RoboDance categories. 17 Rescue Teams, 8 + 6 soccer teams, 5 dance teams, and 15 construction teams were competing during a 2-day contest in the Secondary School of Electrotechnics.25. 4. 2009
Traditional contest of the mobile robots. Categories: Linefollower, Micromouse, MiniSumo, FreeStyle.
More info...
Status: [Total: 110, Linefollower: 56, Micromouse: 14, MiniSumo: 44, FreeStyle: 11]
NEW: See the complete results.
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21. 3. 2009
International rbotic contest RobotChallenge in Wien, Austria. The same categories as previous year, but also two new added. Humanoid sprint and Humanoid sumo.
More information...
NEW: Report from the event (fotos, results)... - March 20th, 2009
Costructionism and Robotics in School EducationAt the Department of AI, FMPHI, Comenius university, at the 12:30 there will be a seminar held by the Prof. Dimitris Alimisis (Department of Education, School of Pedagogical & Technological Education, Greece), about the Costructionism and Robotics in School Education.Abstract: During the last few years, robotics is being introduced in school education, from kindergarten to high secondary school, either as an interdisciplinary, project-based learning activity or focused on school subjects, such as Science, Maths, Informatics and Technology. The use of robotics in education offers a learning environment that enables learners to control the behavior of a tangible model by means of a virtual environment actively involving learners in problem solving and encouraging them to carry out experiments and create their own programmable artifacts. During this seminar we will attempt to discuss and answer questions like the following:
- Why Robotics in school education?
- How can we partner robotics technology with the ideas of constructionism?
- Which teaching methodology is appropriate for the introduction of robotics in school class?
- What is the teacher' role?
- How should teachers be trained in using successfully robotics in their class?
- 13. 12. 2008
Polish Wroclav will guest the Robotic Arena competition. Categories
MiniSumo, Sumo, LineFollower and Freestyle. Deadlide for registration
is Nov 30. 2008, the contest itself takes 13th of December.
More information...
- 9. 7. 2008
On the following pages are details of the robots, created in Slovakia.
There is also detailed description of the robots, created at the former
Department of Automation and Control of the Slovak University of Technology. This department is now
called the
Institute for Control and Industrial Informatics FEI STU.
--> History of the Slovak robotics
--> History of the STU robots
- 1. - 12. 7. 2008
Summer school of robotics Robolution - mechatronic future take
place at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, with many
interesting lectures, presentations and laboratory work.
More information... -
1. - 3. 5. 2008
Look at Detailed results, see photos, videos: construction, soccer, dance, and read short reportThe 13th year of contest in building and programming robots for elementary and secondary schools took place in Banska Bystrica. The contestants were solving a specified task in the construction category, and running their robots in the RoboSoccer, RoboRescue and RoboDance categories. 17 Rescue Teams, 8 + 8 soccer teams, 6 dance teams, and 15 construction teams were competing during a 2-day contest in the School Computing Center of Institute of Education Information and Prognoses.
- 19. 4. 2008
Traditional contest of the mobile robots. Categories: Linefollower, Micromouse, MiniSumo, FreeStyle.
More info...
Status: [Linefollower: 38, Micromouse: 11, MiniSumo: 30, FreeStyle: 13, Total: 92]
Live
Watch the contest: live from Bratislava! - 26. 3. 2008
The information acquired using robot sensors is noisy, incomplete, and
ambiguous. Robots create models of environment using probabilities and
solve tasks with the help of probabilistic reasoning. The parameters of
probabilistic models can be learned using the environmental data. This
talk will introduce the field of Probabilistic Robotics.
More information... - 10. 5. 2008
5th International contest on MiniSumo in Poznan University of Technology
Conference Center with an associated robotics show and festival
is defintely an event to be part of!
More information... - 20. - 25. 5. 2008
World's best autonomous sailing boats will compete on the Austrian Lake
Neusiedl from 20th to 25th of Mai 2008 in order to win the first world
championship in robotic sailing. Morover the event is a very good trial
for the Microtransat in autumn 2008. This will be the first
transatlantic race for autonomous sailboats of up to 4m length.
The championship will be accompanied with the IRSC 2008 -- the first International Robotic Sailing Conference.
More information... - 27. 2. 2008
Mobile robot system was build by ICII and ATEC Ltd. and it is
designed for indoor environment. Chassis is designed only for flat
surface. Mobile robot kinematics consists of two driving wheels and
one castor wheel (differential drive). Because of robot circular form
and sensors placing on robot perimeter is possible to use robot
rotation over its own axis for robot vicinity sensing precision
improvement.
More information...
- 27. 2. 2008
An outdoor mobile robot MRVK-01 is a four wheel mobile robot with difference
control system.
The motion system contains two level gear box. Robot contains also an
ultrasonic sensors, laser scanner, colour camera, GPS module and gyroscope.
Robot can be remotely controlled using the wi-fi.
Robot was build in ZTS VVU Košice without the software.
More information... - December 17th 2007
Did you also experience the number of your virtual serial ports growing after you have experimented with some drivers/devices that failed to remove them properly? This little WIN32 console utility allows you to clean the old unused virtual serial ports COMXX from your system.
More...
- November 23rd, 2007
Introduction to Philosophy, Strategy and Technology.
Presented by prof.Gerhard Gruhler and Daniel Haehn, Heilbronn University, Germany.
More information... -
21. 8. 2007
You can program your LEGO Mindstorms NXT robots in Logo soon, the testing release will be available in several days here. Visit its wiki page to learn more... More info... 
25. 4. 2007
Traditional contest of the mobile robots. Categories: Linefollower, Micromouse, MiniSumo, FreeStyle.
More info...
Status: [Linefollower: 25, Micromouse: 10, MiniSumo: 25, FreeStyle: 9, Total: 69]
- May 30. 2007
Second Austrian RoboCup Workshop Wien, AustriaThe workshop will give an introduction to the Robocup organization and describe the different leagues, events that take place every year and research fields. But also other robotic interested people and researcher are very welcome to join this event. More information... - May 17. - 20. 2007
10th European Mirosot Championship Košice, SlovakiaThis European robosoccer championship will be a part of the 55th jubilee of Technical University establishment. Robosoccer championship is more than only sport and social happening. Its main objective is to interest young people in new technical trends. On behalft of the 10th FIRA European Cup 2006 Organizing Committee, we would like to invite your team to participate in the FIRA European Championship 2007 May 17. - 20. 2007.
More information...
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24. 3. 2007
Slovak tour on RC'07 Wien was succesfull: twice second and twice third places - congratulations and many thanks to organizers!
Gallery 1(© Richard Balogh)
Gallery 2 (© Mišo Novák)
- 4. - 8. 9. 2006Robotic holidays 2006Robotika.SK will organize one-week long workshop, with lot of information, practical experiments and team project.
More information...
- 14. 7. 2006
TUKE robotics won 4th place at FIRA Cup world championship in DortmundTeam from the Technical University in Kosice reached fourth place in a tough competition of 22 teams. TUKE robotics confirmed their best ranking among the European teams achieved at the last European Championship. The coming European Championship will take place in Slovakia on May 17-20 2007 in Herlany, close to Kosice! The organizers are expecting the best European teams, and invite you to join the event. Read more about the team and the robosoccer at: www.robosoccer.sk.
The information was provided by the TUKE robotics member, Ing. Jozef Svetlík, PhD. - 3. 7. 2006
Getting around in the worldFirst six-month meeting of EuCognition in Wienna. Very interesting summaries of current projects in the area of navigation and orientation. If You cannot participate, You can still look at the most interesting presentations on the EuCognition web page.
- does all navigation require cognition?
And few photos... - 19. 6. 2006Nice results of the RoboCup Junior 2006 World Finalsare available at German RoboCup Junior site. Links to participants' pages:
- Lukáš Bosko sent us a link to his diary
- Champions from Trstena with many pictures: Dilong!
- See also Norwegian pictures from the arrangement
- 30. 5. 2006CZECH REPUBLIC - SLOVAKIA 0:20A friendly match in robotic football was played at conference on cognition and artificial life at Třešt castle. Robotika.sk brings a message with photographs and videos!
- 29. 4. 2006Video from robotic football in Stara Tura: let's see...26. 4. 2006
Traditional contest of the mobile robots. Categories: Linefollower, Micromouse, MiniSumo, FreeStyle.
More info...
See detailed results with times and points.
- 15. 4. 2006A little project for communication between RCX and PC with Bluetooth.
- 12. 3. 2006
See the pictures and the report from the contest...
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11. 3. 2006
Come with us to visit (and participate!) RobotChallenge 2006 Wien. The RobotChallenge is the biggest competition in Austria for self-made, autonomous, and mobile robots. The basic idea of the competition is to inspire and motivate the creative forces in young people to become involved with innovative technology, research and science.
The event is arranged from InnoC.at in cooperation with the Federal Austrian Computing Centre (BRZ) and the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. The cooperation between these organisations ensures a high standard and gives the event an international character. More info...
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8. - 10. 3. 2006
Stará Turá city will guest 11th annual Slovak contest in construction and programming of the robots for basic and secondary schools. The task is to construct the robot based on the specified topic, also the categories of the international contest RoboCup Junior are presented. More info in Slovak...
- 6. 3. 2006RobotSoccer: TUKE Robotics wins Middle League at FIRA European Cup, Vienna, March 2 - 5, 2006
Congratulations to TUKE Robotics team to fantastic victory in the European Championship!
- January 6th 2006Project of controlling RoboPet from LEGO RCX. See the video (1.9MB). Several people wrote to us, and sent us links to interesting robotic videos, look at: video (6.5MB) about beautiful modular product Viper from Microbric and the preview video (3MB) about new version of RoboSapien Dance Machine.
- January 4th 2006New version of LEGO MINDSTORMSLEGO introduced a new version of their robotics construction set and programmable brick concept. Read more at: www.mindstorms.com, and watch videonew!: 01-06_lego_mindstorms.wmv.