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From: woods@malibu.sfu.ca (Craig A.L. Woods)
Subject: Re: 3rd BEAM Robot Games: Followup and Details
Message-ID: <1994Mar9.222043.28499@sfu.ca>
Summary: corrections
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Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 22:20:43 GMT
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In article <CMEs7H.JKJ@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> mwtilden@math.uwaterloo.ca (Mark W. Tilden) writes:
>
>The third BEAM Robot Games were held at the CNE Automotive complex last
>weekend under very constrained conditions.  Around 40 international
>roboticists had to compete hurredly on the Sunday as Friday and
>Saturday were dominated by the unrelated and overly loud Canada First
>event.  Best overall robot went to Simon Frazer University out of
>Vancouver for DogBot, which, I was delighted to see, was together and
>functional after being only pieces at last years games.
>
Two minor corrections for the record: the University's name is 
"Simon Fraser", and our robot's actual nickname is "Cujo".

Thanks again to Mark Tilden for hosting this event.  Competitions like
the BEAM Olympics are great events for stimulating interest in robotics, 
for making contacts, and most importantly for learning all kinds of 
things from other robotics enthusiasts.

till next year,

Craig Woods  (woods@sfu.ca)
Chair, Mobile Robotics Group
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.

