2010 Information

The Robotics Tasmania AGM will be held at CSIRO Battery Point on Tuesday the 23rd February (5.00 for 5.30pm). The major highlight of the evening will be the talk and presentation by Paulo de Sousa, Reseacrch Director of the Tasmanian ICT Centre. Paulo has worked for a number of years on the Mars Rover project and we are very fortunate that he will be sharing his amazing knowledge with us at the evening. Attached below is an advertisement for the event containing more details and an abstract for his talk.

The 2010 RoboCup Junior Tasmanian State Finals will be held at the Stanley Burbury theatre, UTAS, Hobart Campus on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th August.

Any enquires about this years events can be directed to cbracken@mackillop.tas.edu.au

RoboCup Junior Tasmanian State Finals 2009 ...

The Tasmanian State Competition 2009 went off with a bang. The competition was held at the Stanley Burbury Theatre at the University of Tasmania.  The venue was packed with spectators and teams on both days.  In the three events, we had 11 soccer teams, 27 rescue teams and 23 dance teams.

On Friday, 31 July, the soccer teams and rescue teams got together for the preliminary rounds.  Soccer experienced a bit of a hiccup, due to Peter Wallhead, Chair of Robotics Tasmania, being sick with influenza.  However, thanks to our dedicated volunteer organizers, it went off with out too much hassle. Many thanks go out to Rob Torok, Neil Winter, and Cameron Smith for throwing their hand in on the two days.

On the Saturday, 1 August, the final 8 soccer finalists went through to the playoffs and Grand Finals, the rescuing continued, with one team, for the first time, successfully lifting and rescuing the victim in Premier Rescue, and 23 dance teams strutted their stuff.  This year saw the introduction of Dance Theatre, with 11 out of the 23 teams choosing Dance Theatre.  The distinction between Dance Theatre and Dance is Dance Theatre is judged upon presenting a themed performance, whereas Dance is judged upon robots precisely dancing in time with the music.  Both are judged on the use of technology plus entertainment value.  Both were a success.

The day ended with presentations made by special guests: radio announcer Andy Muirhead, and Daniel Hulme. Special awards were also presented by Chris Letchford, the  head of UTAS Engineering, and Ying Chen from the UTAS School of Information Systems.

It was a stellar event with a significant growth in the number of team entries and also in the number of volunteers and audience. 

For all the Major Results, please see the attachment below

Rescue, Dance or Soccer guides for the 2009 Tasmanian State RCJ Finals can also be accessed.

Due to technical issues the Robotics Tasmania website www.roboticstasmania.com is is currently down. All major Tasmanian RoboCup Junior news will be on this site (until further notice)