In Tasmania, you can become a RoboCup champion!

Entries are NOW OPEN for students wishing to enter the Tasmanian RoboCup Junior competition, to be held on Saturday 8 August. You can find more information and register at their website. RoboCup Junior is a competition open to primary and high school students, who build and program robots to compete in one of three categories: dance, rescue or soccer. The RoboCup Jr…

Day 4: Robogals Workshop Ignites Tasmanian National Science Week

Yesterday at the University of Tasmania in the state’s south, a group of students and adults participated in the Robogals Robotics Workshop. Using Lego kits, participants built small, four wheeled programmable robots. Not only were most of the kids able to build their bots quickly, but some of them had already moved on to modification and…