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Autonomous robots build by young people
Eurobot is a international amateur robotics contest open to teams of young people, organised either in student projects or in independent clubs. A team is composed of several people joining around a common project.

Encouraging the practice of science in a friendly spirit!
EUROBOT values, fair play, solidarity, technical knowledge sharing and creativity both through techniques and project management more than competition. The contest aims at interesting the largest public to robotics and at encouraging the group practice of science by youth. EUROBOT and its national qualifications are intended to take place in a friendly and sporting spirit. Thus, more than an engineering championship for young people, EUROBOT is a friendly pretext to technical imagination and exchange ideas, know-how, hints and engineering knowledge around a common challenge. Creativity is at stake and interdisciplinarity requested. Technical and cultural enrichment is the goal. To conclude, at this competition everyone wins in knowledge, experience and friendship : those who are awarded of course, but also those who didn't manage to make their robot work properly and were eliminated during the matches.

A European contest open to the world
EUROBOT is taking place in Europe, but is open to other countries. The countries presenting more than three teams shall organise a national qualification (or national cup), in order to select three teams among them. Of course, multinational teams are welcome. EUROBOT and its national selections are attended mostly by volunteers of all nationality who believe in the educational value of the experience, and are for most former participants themselves.

Rules are renewed each year
The rules change each year to give new teams to same status as the others and to stimulates the ones which have already participated. Nevertheless some points remain the same : the matches last roughly 1min30s, the robots shall include themselves in a 30cm to 40cm large cube (~ 12 to 15 inches) and the competition area is defined as a 2m per 3m (~ 80 per 120 inches) table surface with a more or less complex topology. Rediscover the ambience of the meetings in our archives

Not only a contest, also conferences, demonstrations, feast..
Companies see interests in this event for the students they could potentially hire and to make their activities know. They also take benefit from this competition to show their developments dealing with robotics. Conferences are also organised by profezssionals for the students and the public. The atmosphere during Eurobot looks more like a robotics festival than a severe competition. Don't be surprised to encounter a pink rabbit or green-haired persons, as mascots and supporters are numerous. You won't have the time to get bored with almost 1500 persons fond of robotics there ! Usually, a feast for all the competitors and their supporters is organised at the end. After 8 long months of hard work, tests, sleepless nights before the matches, it is an explosion of joy, songs, costumes, mascots...

Eurobot: a contest covered by televisions from Europe
Since the beginning, this contest is broadcasted every year on M6 during a 26 minutes report. But all television are welcome and the French TV producer propose its images for free to producer who wish to insure the promotion of the contest in their country.

2005-05-19 17:52:49 Video Streaming You can watch live internet video streaming, follow the link

2005-05-19 17:36:44 Photos You can see pictures on this website : www.robot-ch.org

2005-05-19 17:25:14 Programs You can find programs for 2005 May Thursday Go to programs