Here are the videos and results of the Mini-Sumo competition held on 19-Dec-2014 in Horw, Switzerland:

• Winner full-autonomous tournament: “The:Flash”
• Winner semi-autonomous tournament: “Banana-Rob”

See “Infotronic WS2014 Sumo Robots are Ready!” for all the robot portraits.

Watching a Sumo Battle

Some findings:

1. “No strategy” is a winning strategy too 😉
2. Sometimes it is better not to move and let the other robot to run into disaster….
3. Yes, robots can dance too!
4. A GoPro camera robot can change the perspective!

GoPro Camera Robot

The first tournament mode was using full autonomous mode: the robots had to use their sensors to win the battles:

The second tournament round was in semi-autonomous mode, allowed to control the sumo robots with Bluetooth and/or nRF24L01+:

And if you are wondering how this all looks like from the robots point of view (thanks to Philipp Herzog for this great idea and contribution):

The teams and robots did great, and it was a lot of fun!

The results and rankings are available here:

• http://challonge.com/INTRO_HS2014_FA
• http://challonge.com/INTRO_HS2014

Happy Sumoing 🙂