Hamster Robot Roundup, YeeHAW!
February 13th, 2007 by SBBecause it seems like it’s becoming a recurring theme around the RoBunker, we submit for your approval ALL OF THE HAMSTER ROBOTS WE COULD FIND!*
Who knew there would be so many. . .[twitch]
The ever-popular iRobot Hamsterbot!
Emotion-grabbing Kismet like Hamsterbot!
A teenty weeny hamsterbot thread on Slashdot!
For the knitting types (and the furries too, I guess) Squishy Robot Hamster!!!
Even more wrong than the wrong thing that was wrong above this one (NSFW, unless you work in my kitchen).
Hampy The Hamster-lovin’ chatterbot!
Rumors of another AI Hamster from Bruce Eisner!
*This post may look like a link dump, but we actually had to do RESEARCH!
RESEARCH I TELL YOU!**
**Not really
November 14th, 2008 at 5:13 am
We are the organizers of Techfest, IIT Bombay. We plan to conduct a robotics event in Denmark on 6th December 2008 and we request you to please promote this competition and publicize by forwarding the mail to the students. The details are given below. Please do reply for any further details.
Techfest is the Annual International Science and Technology Festival of IIT Bombay. Techfest is a completely student organized festival and a non-profit organization. From a fledgling event in 1998, today it has grown to be the largest festival of its kind in Asia. Techfest enjoys a participation of about 45,000 students from over 1500 colleges across India and over 2000 faculty members and corporate executives. In 2004, Techfest took the bold step of going international and has since received enthusiastic response from the Asia-Pacific region with entries from Singapore, Sri Lanka, Nepal and United States of America, Iran and United Arab Emirates.
In its twelfth edition Techfest 2009 will be held from January 24 to 26, 2009, at IIT Bombay, India.
Techfest iNexus – Introduction & Format :
Techfest iNexus is a unique initiative by Techfest to conduct a legged robotic competition in two stages, the first of which is the iNexus competition being held at universities worldwide. The winners of this stage will be invited to India to participate in the final and concluding stage which will be held at Techfest 2009, IIT Bombay in January. There are prize money worth 23,000 DKK at stake including flight tickets to India for the winners.
The Denmark centre for iNexus this year is in Odense.
On 6th December 2008.
Our Vision
The concept of “iNexus” came up with our vision to increase the level of student interaction at an international scale, and a higher degree of collaboration among premier academic institutions of the world and hence aiming towards providing a platform for students from all over the globe to compete with each other at a standard robotics competition. Also we would be able to extend the Techfest platform and foster an interest in areas like robotics to students who usually wouldn’t be able to access it.
Inviting teams from Higher Colleges of Technology to take part:
We take immense pleasure in inviting Universities of Denmark to encourage and send its student participation in Techfest iNexus, Denmark centre and hence participating in Techfest 2009 and help in increasing the interaction between students of different countries and also between IIT Bombay and Higher Colleges of Technology. We look forward for an active participation from Higher Colleges of Technology and hope to see many teams from your university, participating in Techfest iNexus.
We request you to publicize and promote this competition amongst your students. We would be grateful to you if you can provide the student data base who could participate in this competition or if you could forward this to the students of your college.
For details regarding iNexus international round please visit: http://www.techfest.org/inexus
For details regarding final round please visit: http://www.techfest.org/competitions/techtronics/arthrobot
Students can register for iNexus at: http://techfest.org/register/register.php?e=ix
Please forward this mail to other students of your college and we would be grateful if you can pass on to us contacts of few students who might be intrested to participate in this competition.