Robots Of The World Descend On San Francisco For The 6th Amazing Year
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 5, 2009 -- Get ready for RoboGames 2009! Officially declared by the Guinness Book to be the World's largest open robot competition, RoboGames is the only science-slanted sporting event to make it on ESPN SportsCenter *and* in Scientific American!
Robots from every continent are rocketing into San Francisco, the place where it all began, to compete in the spirit of technological discovery and sporting competition (with the tiniest dash of Gold Medal bloodlust)! This years attendees come from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Russia, South Korea, UK, and the United States. Can the UK's 5-time gold medalist "Ziggy" retain it's lead for an amazing 6th year? Will Brazil finally sweep the combat classes? Can Team USA regain the top spot in humanoid soccer, having lost a heartbreaking defeat to Austria?
This year's event will host over 70 different competitions, including 18 different events just for walking humanoids. Large scale combat robots will fight to the death behind bulletproof glass, thrilling the crowd with crashing, smashing, flame-throwing, and miscellaneous wanton destruction. The combat robots, weighing as much as 340 pounds, are what draws most people to the event, but many stay for the AI based sumo robots, soccer bots, and kinetic art that fills out the venue.
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