User:Spelbyte

The SpelBots, short for Spelman College Robotics, was a robotics team founded in 2004 by Dr. Andrew B. Williams at Spelman College, a historically black college for women in Atlanta, GA. The SpelBots became the first all-women, African American robotics team to compete in the international RoboCup event. They participated in the RoboCup Four-Legged League soccer competition in 2005 in Osaka, Japan using the Sony AIBO robots and the Tekkotsu robotics platform. The first team was made up of six Spelman students. The SpelBots competed again in the 2006 RoboCup held in Bremen, Germany in the RoboCup Four-Legged League soccer competition. In 2007, the SpelBots tied for 2nd in the Passing Event in the Four-Legged Technical Challenge the University of Texas-Austin team, Austin Villa. In 2008, the SpelBots qualified to compete in the RoboCup Standard Platform League in the AIBO Divsion in Suzhou, China but did not compete. The SpelBots perform research and conduct community outreach to encourage young women to participate in computing and robotics through the Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI) Alliance, www.artsialliance.org.