Team acYut from BITS Pilani for RoboGames 2009
Robotics is becoming the new lifestyle sport of the thinking age. RoboGames USA as per Wired Magazine is "North America's Top Ten Best Geek Fests" and as per ESPN Sports Center is "SportCenter Top Ten".
David Calkins who had worked with all types of robot competitions, realized the need for cross-pollination between events, as too many robot builders over-specialized within their own field. In 2004, David founded the RoboGames http://www.RoboGames.net as RoboOlympics to bring together builders from combat robotics (mechanical engineering)
As much as the very best athletes compete in Olympics, the very best robots compete in Robogames which as per Guinness Book of World Records is "World's Largest Robot competition"
The sixth edition of RoboGames is scheduled from Friday-Sunday, June 12-14, 2009 at Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, San Francisco California. The participating countries include Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Russia, South Korea, UK, and the United States.
This year acYut in various avtars (incarnations)
Samay Kohli, Sushma Vallabhaneni, Mohammad Ariz and Akash Gupta students from Birla Institute of Technology and Science - BITS Pilani accompanied by Prof RK Mittal Deputy Director from the same Institute have set sail for the Robogames Gold quest. Passion packed BITS alumni who are undoubtedly the torch bearers for Brand BITS Pilani across the globe have supported the acYut mission in a big way.
The acYut team has taken this RoboGames participation as a mission with passion to prove that for BITSians there are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond reach.
