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

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.

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 ftpaddress: 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"   _    _    ________________________
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