Aside from aiming to popularize robot sumo, which is a sport consisting of two robots trying to push each other towards the edge of the arena, the team wants to push the competition to the next level.

SumoBoy is a multipurpose Arduino-based robotics kit for sport and education. A team of die-hard robotics enthusiasts has come together to create the world’s first mini sumo robotics kit and is ...

[David] over at Pololu programmed a mini-sumo robot, Zumo Red, with some extra smarts. The basic rules of sumo robotics is exactly like human sumo – push your competitor out of the ring. [David ...

The basic rules of sumo robotics is exactly like human sumo – push your competitor out of the ring. [David]’s robot is special because it not only detects the competition border but measures ...

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