Robotics Competition in schools and universities-challenges for the young challengers   

A robotic competition is a competition among robots where each has to accomplish a task, which is given by the committee. The goal of each robot is to beat other robots in order to become the best one. Most robot competitions are for schools and universities but now several professional competitions are arising and the number of which is increasing day by day.

There are verities types of robotics competition some of which is given below-

DARPA Grand Challenge: It is a competition for driverless car where the car has to traverse in the shortest possible time in a path having a path of defined start & end points.  It is sponsored by DARPA. $1,000,000 was the prize money in 2004, which was unclaimed.

Robotics Competition in Finland: This is an annual competition, which is held at mid-summer in every year, and the Finland Robotic Association organizes this competition. The goal of this competition is to construct a robot that is able to move frequently in road without any help of human. The competition in 2007 & 2008 is available on YouTube movies as well as pictures.

Intelligent ground vehicle competition: This Competition is an autonomous ground vehicles competition where the robot must travel through the outdoor obstacle without any human assistance. AUVSI sponsors this robotic competition, which has the purpose of design competitions among the university students. It is an annual competition that is held since 1992.

RoboGames: It is formally known as ROBO Olympics and places on the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest robot competition. The RoboGames has some events as robot soccer, sumo, android wrestling, maze solving, biped races and exoskeletons. RoboGames has no prerequisites for contestants. It is open to anyone.

International METU Robotics Days: the Middle East Technical University in Turkey organizes this robotics competition day every year. The Robotics Days include competitions, lectures and workshops designed to bring professionals, academics and amateurs together.

FIRST competition: Founder of FIRST stands for Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. The founder of FIRST competition Dean Kamen created the world's best school robotics competition, which began in 1992. The universality and popularity makes FIRST one of the highly recommendable robot competitions. People who win here get the best platform to be a robot designer and make a good start for their career.