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Complete Guide, Kits, and Forum available for the Fourth
International BEAM Robot Games, May 95

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NAME:		Fourth International BEAM Robot Games
NEXT DATE:	May 4-7, 1995.
LOCATION:	Glorieta Conference Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
EVENTS:
SOLAROLLER:	Self-starting robot dragster race.
PHOTOVORE:	Robots face a close "world" and each other.
AQUAVORE:	Robots face the terrors of a fish-tank.
HIGH JUMP:	Robot creature leaps, lands on feet.
LONG JUMP:	Robot creature leaps, lands, for distance.
ROPE CLIMBING:	First up, first down, self-starting.
LEGGED RACE:	Walking creatures run for the money.
INNOVATION MACHINES: Electronic chopsticks, for example. 
ROBOART/MODIFICATION: Aesthetics that move. 
ROBOT SUMO:	Push/Bash an opponent out of a ring.
LIMBO RACE:	How low can you build?
NANOMOUSE:	A smaller and simpler form of the...
MICROMOUSE:	Where metal mice race for aluminum cheese.
AEROBOT:	Build a self-contained, flying dive-bomber.
MISC:		"Well, it's a... er..."

CLASSES:	Autonomous and Remote-Control.
SIZE:		Must be smaller than a "standard upright refrigerator".
AWARDS:		Sponsor supplied material and cash awards in all
		categories.

INFO: BEAM ASCII Rulesets, entrance forms, information, etc. accessible
in four ways: by email, the World Wide Web (WWW), anonymous ftp, or
real-mail request.

1) To use the email information server, send mail to robot@lanl.gov
with the string "info" somewhere in the subject line (case
insensitive). You will be sent instructions on how to receive specific
information about the 1995 BEAM Games via email.

2) The WWW site for the 1995 BEAM Games is http://sst.lanl.gov/robot/ 

3) Anonymous ftp-
address: sst.lanl.gov
username: anonymous
password: your email address
directory: /pub/users/matt/robot
or
address: math.uwaterloo.ca
username: anonymous
password: your email address
directory: /pub/beam/rules

4) Info or Guide request letter (see below) to: 

BEAM Games
c/o Mark W. Tilden,
MSD449, LANL,
Los Alamos, NM 87545,
USA.

OBTAINABLES: 120 page updated, illustrated Guidebook available from
above address for $20 (local and international): cheque or money order
made out to "BEAM: Un. of California". BEAM Kits are available from
either amiller@nic.hookup.net (Miller, 274 Erb St. W. Waterloo, Ont.
Canada, N2L-1W2), or hrynkiwd@cuug.ab.ca (Dave Hrynkiw, #103 915 - 13th
Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2R-0L3).


PITCH: The International BEAM Robot Games, now in it's fourth year, is
a forum for robot enthusiasts both amateur and professional to present
their designs to each other, the press, and the public. Any and every
robot will be considered so long as it does not come exclusively from a
kit or store. Robots of similar ability will be pitted against each
other in organized competition, but generally robots will be judged on
sophistication of behavior, novelty of design, efficiency of power
source, and quality of hardware innovation.

The Robot Games feature 15 basic competitions ranging in difficulty
from simple to complex. A 120 page illustrated Guide is now available
for $20 (local and international, includes shipping) which contains
competition rules, "get-started" instructions, Artificial Life (Alife)
discussions, prior show details and winners, and full information on
registration, travel, schedules and etc. The event is open to the
public and the press for a $5 entrance fee per day.

All venues are open to the interested, young or old, so grab your
soldering iron, raid the junk pile, and we'll see you there.

Sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory 

Is all.

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-- 
Mark W. Tilden.  "Gomi no Sensei des"   _    _    ________________________
P3, LANL, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.   / \  / \  /________________________)
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