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The '''Defcon Robot Contest''' is a [[robotics]] competition which is held at the annual [[DEF_CON_(convention)|Defcon]] computer security conference in [[Las Vegas Strip|Las Vegas]].

The '''Defcon Robot Contest''' is a [[robotics]] competition which is held at the annual [[DEF_CON_DEF CON (convention)|Defcon]] computer security conference in [[Las Vegas Strip|Las Vegas]].

==History==

==History==

===Defcon 12 (2004)===

The first competition was held at Defcon 11 in [[2003]]. The objective was to transport ping pong balls from one corner of an arena to the other. Only Irvine Underground entered a team and they were able to successfully complete the task.

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This year's rules were exactly the same as previous years. First place was taken by Team Yozhik, shooting 24 targets in 15.7 seconds. This was the first time that team participated in DefconBots competition. Before that, the team took first place in [[RoboGames]] 2008 competition in San Francisco.

The contest's organizer, Kallahar, has stated that next year's competition will be in a different format. One reason for that was the high complexity of building a shooting robot -- winningrobot—winning teams used expensive parts like industrial AC servo motors, commercial AC/micro-stepping controllers and high precision [[Harmonic drive]] gearboxes. While the teams did not pay the full price for them (because of eBay or corporate donations), other teams would have to spend large amounts of money to replicate the winning designs.

==Prizes==