YOUR university has exams at a showgrounds and YOUR complaining about the government? I have never heard of exams being taken anywhere other than in classrooms, maybe you should talk to the student counsel at your uni and file a complaint about off-campus exams.

Turkey showed up and put on quite a show. However, there was a Japanese team that did not show.

So it looks like the next round of major robotics challenges are upon us. This competition builds upon the DARPA Grand Challenge and DARPA Urban Challenge by taking the competition to multiple robots. Currently, military (as well as search and rescue) personnel can control only one or two robots and often it takes a crew of humans controls a single robot. With this MAGIC 2010 competition, the US and Australian defense departments are attempting to invert that ratio so that one or two soldiers can control a team of robots (20, 30, etc). This is truly amazing and could mark a major shift in robotics.