RoboGames (formerly ROBOlympics)

My eye fell upon this as I was getting my daily course of Slashdot. A robotics competetion called RoboGames (formerly ROBOlympics).

I have a feeling that these contests don’t achieve much, except get kids hooked onto robotics, which is a good thing. Doesn’t do much for robotics research as these are mostly simple robots, but heck…these are kids in school, people who have robots as a hobby.

Add this to the slew of robotics competetions for kids here: FIRST robotics competetions and their likes, and the several competetions for kids held at universities like mine! There seems to be a massive effort to get kids interested in man’s future! Good, things are working according to the plan!!