The Concept

Robocon, short for Robotic Contest, is an interesting game- cum- intellectual exercise for budding engineers and their enthusiastic instructors, determined to innovate and create machines for producing desired results. Participation in this activity is an end-to-end competitive experience from concept design of a system of robots programmed to perform according to rules of the game played on a high precision technical Contest Area and to score a victory beating the competitors; all this according to a Theme declared by the Host Country. International Robocons are mainly sponsored by Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) which includes Doordarshan (Prasarbharati) of India as a member which has been organizing all activities in India for last five years with collaboration with Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT) Pune, India.

Recent Competitions

The International Robocon2008 was held in MIT Pune on 31st August 2008, where 17 Engineering Colleges from 16 countries participated. The Theme for Robocon2008 declared by India was Govinda, a traditional Indian Deity who used to play earthly games by capturing Butter/Cheese from heads of Gopis - interestingly animated on the field in MIT and colorfully broadcasted by Doordarshan and other membersof ABU across the world. The International Robocon2009 was held in Tokyo Japan on 22ndh August 2009 with the Theme of Kago, the traditional Japanese palanquin, carried by human beings replaced by robots. The winners were a team from China who completed the task consistently in 18 seconds.

Next Robocon2010

The next International Robocon2010 is scheduled to be held in Cairo, Egypt with the Theme of Robo-Pharaohs Build Pyramids. The details for the Contest are available on http://roboconegypt2010.com To decide India’s participation in the International event at Cairo,Egypt during August 2010, Doordarshan-MIT is organizing the National Robocon2010 on Saturday 6th March 2010, for which Registrations are open until 31st January 2010.