First Robot Olympics

The First Robot Olympics.[1] took place in Glasgow,[2] Scotland on 27–28 September 1990.[3]

The event was run by The Turing Institute at the Sports Centre at the University of Strathclyde. It featured 68 robots from 12 countries and involved over 2,500 visitors over the two-day period.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

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