Dear Friends
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to our new association. It has taken over a year to get all the ‘ducks-in-a-row’ and finally we have a registered Section 21 (not for profit) company with the express purpose of furthering the objectives of Robotics, Automation and AI in South Africa.
Registered on 3 September 2009 with the Registrar of Companies and allocated reference number 2009/017265/08, we can now proudly say we have a unifying ‘vehicle’ for collective cooperation among the various Robotics and Mechatronics research and development initiatives across the region.
MAIN OBJECTIVES
• To galvanises and coordinate the efforts of the various Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) development and research initiatives across Southern Africa.
• Promote awareness of the Robotics and AI research initiatives taking place at the primary and tertiary education institutions in the region.
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Come and see how the kids battle it out with their robots on Saturday 4 September @ the Irene Village Mall. Each team has to build a robot on the day to execute pre-defined tasks. There will be over 30 teams to compete for the ultimate prize – to represent SA at the WRO in Philippines.
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FIRST Lego League National Championships |
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Saturday the 12th December 2009 will be the FIRST Lego League National Championships at Sci-Bono in Newtown Joburg.
This championship is where the best FLL teams from 3 Regional competitions will compete. The winning team will receive an invitation to represent South Africa at the World Championships in Atlanta in April 2010.
Many thanks to the main sponsors of this event:
Tshwane University of Technology
Sci-Bono Discovery Centre
SAP South Africa
For more info on FLL in South Africa visit their website www.fllsa.org.za or contact Johannes on 083 679 2015
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The RoboCup German Open starts in a couple of days. The first games will be played on Thursday 15th April.
You can find more information regarding the tournament on www.robocup-german-open.de.
Also this year, Tech United Eindhoven will try to set up a live stream of all the games. You can access this live stream from www.techunited.nl.
We are now on Facebook, come and join the group! |
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The Robotics and Agents Research Lab |
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This website http://ibots.mec.uct.ac.za/IBOTS/ has videos of the UCT Robot in action at RoboCup 2009.
The Robotics and Agents Research Lab started as a merger between UCT's Agents Reserach Group from Computer Science and the Robotics Group affiliated with Mechanical Engineering.
Since the Lab was founded in 2008, we concentrate on teaching and research in the fields of robotics, artificial intelligence, and computational intelligence.
Read more about them on http://ibots.mec.uct.ac.za/IBOTS/ |
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