Beginning today, student teams will compete in the Silicon Valley regional qualifying event for the
First Robotics Competition,
a six-week challenge to design, build, and test robots. The teams are sponsored by tech companies such as Google, IBM, and Microsoft, as well as the NASA Ames Research Center.
CollabNet says it has contributed nearly $250,000 worth of its collaborative software development platform to help students program their robots. We've covered open source robot development efforts before,
here,
here, and
here. Will the competition move us closer to an open source version of C3PO?
