Robot Sumo: The Official Guide

by Pete Miles

Book Overview

A guide to robot sumo. The author shows readers how to build a classic (3kg) sumo bot or a mini-sumo bot. He explains how sensors work and how to use them effectively; includes logic and programming... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 007222617X
• ISBN13: 9780072226171
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The First Official Book in English!

I strongly recommend this book to everyone who wishes to handmade his/her own Sumo Robot Wrestler and compete against many other Sumo robot builders. Pete Miles explains in detail how to design a Sumo robot and how to put all components together.Great book with lots of photos and diagrams.It's even priced reasonable.I believe this book would become a bible for every Robot Sumo enthusiasts worldwide!!

This is the book to start with for competition sumo robots

This is an excellent book on sumo robots. It takes you all the way from building your first sumo robot to construction of the battle rings. Lots of pictures and lots of solid technical information. This book is a must have you want to build a sumo robot or want to improve a robot you've already built.

Superb! - Good for Robot Sumo and other types of robots too

I read this book from cover to cover, and I have to say that it's an excellent book (and I'm not just saying that because my robot Marauder has a picture in the book).This is the book I wish that I had when I got started.I highly recommend it.

Excellent Hands-on How-to Robot Book!

This is a must-have text for every robot builder; generously full of inspiring ideas, pictures, circuits, diagrams, techniques, and strategies.With one or more pictures or diagrams on almost every page, Pete's "Robot Sumo" guide details and explains in a clear and easy-to-understand way the various technologies, techniques, and tricks involved in building sumo robots (which can also be applied to other types of robots). The abundance of pictures and diagrams expose the mystery of these fighting robots through 16 well-organized chapters, allowing the reader to easily grasp the ideas with enough detail to be able to easily incorporate them into their own robotic projects. This text is appropriate to all ranges, from the beginner to robotics looking for a place to start through the seasoned robot builder looking for advanced techniques. There are details for radio-controlled robots as well as a wealth of information on autonomous robots. The text also has a very comprehensive index to allow you to quickly locate specific material, plus two appendices full of references. I just got my copy of the book today and I have already discovered many useful construction techniques that I plan to incorporate in my own robots. This is the best single-source of robot-building information on the market today!