Robot Tanks Battle in Thurles

THURLES -- The staff of Tipperary Institute are gearing with military precision for the national finals of RoboCode 2004, set for the Thurles campus on March 11th. Participants from 10 colleges and universities across Ireland battle for top honours in this programming competition. Unlike the real-life destruction that features on "Robot Wars," RoboCode is a game where teams use Java to program one or more robot tanks to battle in an arena against each other. The little graphical tanks need to be programmed to avoid being hit. They need to be smart enough to move around an arena without any kind of manual control. All of their intelligence is part of a single Java file. It's rather remarkable to observe, seeing first-hand the skillsets that will later underpin the Irish games industry.

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Scorpion tank provided by Irish Military Online.
RoboCode 2004 sponsored by the Irish Computer Society.
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