In the world of robotics, there are numerous competitions in which enthusiasts and professionals put their creations to the test. Together with the AESS and IRI, who are pioneers in staging and participating in these competitions in Spain, we invite you to attend various types of competitions between machines in the main categories and to discover the technical complexity within them:

Staircases: one of the most obvious advantages that humanoid robots have over their contemporaries with wheels is their ability to overcome significant gradients using stairs. Climbing up and down stairs is one of the most common and complex tests for this type of robot.

Football: another competition in the humanoid world is football, which is a combination of the perception of surroundings and the coordination of movements. Here, we show how the robot detects a ball and moves towards it.

Sumo: wrestling between robots combines the need to locate the rival and the right combat tactics. The objective is to knock down the opponent or push it out of the ring.

Mini-Sumo: the same idea as the sumo competition, but with smaller and lighter robots.

Trackers: The test for tracker robots is designed for robots that are autonomous in all respects, and the aim is to follow a white line, completing the circuit against the clock.

AESS-Estudiants is a students' association at the ETSETB - UPC Barcelona telecommunications school. Its objective is to promote the world of robotics and technology at universities by means of its courses, conferences and competitions. The Humanoid Lab is part of the Robotics Institute, a research centre of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the Spanish National Research Council. The project is aimed at students interested in learning the basic concepts of robotics, and uses small-scale humanoid robots.

http://aess.upc.es

http://www.iri.upc.edu