Deviations in Game Field.                                                               Registration till date.

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 Robocon2011 was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 28^th August 2011 where 19 Engineering Colleges from 18 countries participated. The Theme for Robocon2011 declared by Thailand was Krathong, Lighting Happiness with Friendship. The International Robocon2010 was held in Cairo, Egypt on 22^nd September 2010 where 18 Engineering Colleges from 17 countries participated. The Theme for Robocon2010 declared by Egypt was Robo-Pharaohs Build Pyramids. The International Robocon2009 was held in Tokyo, Japan on 22^nd 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. The International Robocon2008 was held in MIT, Pune on 31^st 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.

Next Robocon 2012

The next International Robocon2012 is scheduled to be held in Hong Kong, with the Theme of "Peng On Dai Gat". The details for the Contest are available on www.aburobocon2012.hk To decide India’s participation in the International event at Hong Kong, during August 2012, Doordarshan-MAE is organizing the National Robocon2012 on Thursday 1^st to 3^rd March 2012.