ROBOCON

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 to produce desired results. Participation in it 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 precisely created challenging field 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 four years with collaboration with Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT) Pune, India.

 The last International Robocon2008 was held in MIT Pune on 31st August, 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.

The next International Robocon2009 is scheduled to be held in Tokyo Japan from 20th to 24th August 2009. Theme declared by Tokyo is Kago, the traditional Japanese palanquin,  carried  by human beings -  an interesting and challenging objective  for designes/fabricators to work on.   To decide India’s participation in it, Doordarshan-MIT is organizing the National Robocon2009 on 6th to 7th March 2009, for which Registrations are open until 31st January 2009

Venue for ROBOCON National Robotic contest 2009 is

Shiv Chhatrapati Krida Sankul, Balewadi, Pune