Welcome to the WAMBOT team page

NEWS! WAMBOT/MAGICIAN have completed the Old Ram Shed Challenge with great success! Contact us if you would like to know more.

We are the West-Australian part of team “MAGICian” competing in the Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC 2010).

MAGIC 2010 is a competition created by the Australian and US Departments of Defence to develop next-generation autonomous ground vehicle systems. The challenge consists of building a fleet of robots for autonomous surveillance and mapping of a 500m x 500m urban area in less than 3.5 hours.

The MAGICian team was shortlisted in November 2009 and passed the June 2010 competition to become one of the six finalisists in the MAGIC 2010 competition. We succesfully completed the Old Ram Shed Challenge in November 2010, and the winners of the competition will be announced at the Land and Warfare Conference.
We were the only Australian team in the finals.