In the RSSC archives, I found the following pictures from a Grid Navigation contest  held in June 2003. I do not have much information about this event. If you remember anything mentionworthy, please let us know and we will add it to this web page.

Our RSSC club in Fullerton used to collaborate with the SDRS robot club in San Diego, which does not exist anymore. In 2001, a Talent Show and a Minesweeper contest was heldHere are some pictures I found in the archives from the Talent Show portion:

Our RSSC club in Fullerton used to collaborate with the SDRS robot club in San Diego, which does not exist anymore. In 2001, a Minesweeper contest was held (a sort of line-following contest). Here are some pictures from the archives:

In November 2008, The Robotics Society of Southern California held its annual Talent Contest. The audience grades each entrant for 4 categories:

- software merits

- electronics merits

- mechanics merits

- originality

Here, you can find more about the rules we try to follow.

Here are some video's of this years entrants:

Sumo Robot Contest: (Pictures by Ken!)

10 robots entered the Sumo robot contest. After many rounds of high excitement, the victors were crowned:

1. Gravedigger byjohn (3 time champion!)

2. Germbot by German monroy (2 time 2nd place!)

3. Joshbot by Josh. (First time robot builder!)

Battle for 2nd and third place, joshbot left vs. Germbot right

RSSC Can Following Competition  (Robots must navigate to pick up a soda can, pick it up, and then navigate back to their initial position.

Jim Ubersetzig entered CR

German Monroy and Ernesto entered DeLaGhetto

Each year we hold a contest which is open to anyone to show their favorite project.  The winners are chosen by the audience considering factors such as: Software, Electronics,  Hardware and overall appeal. You can find the rules here.

The club organizes a talent contest every year.

The rules are simple:

1) anyone can show up and present a robotics-related project that they did

2) everyone in the audience gives 4 scores, each between 1 and 10:

          - a score for the project merits on electronics

Well, we had only two contestants for the contest, Derek Jones and Alex Brown.  Hence, we chose to make the even more of a demonstration than a real contest (i.e. with prizes and all).  Disclaimer.. Alex Brown is your humble secretary and is generating these minutes.  Hence, any bias in the contest description is to be expected.  And the reason why he didn’t get any pictures will become clear.

The rules for Robosumo contest can be found here.

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A contest was held which had the objective of the robot finding an electrical outlet on the wall in the front of the room as accurately as possible, and with the optional objective of actually plugging in a real plug. There were 4 entrants, however only three ran since Martin accidently smoked his processor just before the contest.  Oh well, these things happen ;-)

A contest was held with students (and teacher) from Mt. San Antonio community college. The contest was a wall following contest using an arena proposed by the students.  

The results were as follows:

First place:                Xaoi Zedong with his robot R2D2

Second place:         Carlos with his robot Silverball

Third place:             John Davis with his robot NXT

Other entries included:

Line Following 2006

The Line Following contest had 6 robots enter. 

While Jeff Dunker's and Gary Smith's robots both successfully completed the course and recognized the end of the line, the rules that the judges were given didn't mention the bonus points for stopping at the end, and Jeff Smith's and Jim Ubersetzig's robots finished the course with more speed and took the wins.

Pick-up-the-Can August 2009

by Jef Mangelschots

Thomas Messersmidt came up with a new contest called pick-up-the-can. The purpose is to pick up a randomly placed empty soda can and move it out the area. This contest is a preclude to having a humanoid go and fetch you a cold beer from the fridge. A very very early preclude. It is also a refreshing diversion from the other contests, which are all mobile robots navigating some course. This contest is about manipulation.