Welcome to the homepage of the Brisbane Robotics Special Interest Group (SIG) of Queensland, Australia. We are supported by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and Griffith University. We are a mixed group of people who have a common interest in Autonomous Mobile Robots. No prior knowledge is assumed, and the aim of the group is to have fun!

We are now communicating with each other through Yahoo Groups, and organising get togethers and competitions via the email list.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/robot_sig/

Feel free to join.

The group has been growing and gaining experience since inception. Some notable achievements:

• Our last robotics competition was the Robot Challenge 2002-03, which was held at Griffith University in Mid 2003 during their open day.

  This used to be an annual event, which will be held again maybe toward the later part of this year.

• Some of the SIG members have built robots based on the Handy Board. Several working robots (including entrants in the competition) have been produced - these are now being expanded and refined for upcoming competions as well as other tasks.

• Several robotics workshops have been held so far. These have been run at the various Universities around Brisane, and provided good experience with physically building and programming a real robot.