The US Military is holding a Robotics Rodeo, giving robot inventors a chance to show off what they have. Specifically it is the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC)and Fort Hood III Corps that is holding this event. The Military is seeking robots that can do everything from perform reconnaissance to robots capable of acting like a squad and acting in concert.

What the military is hoping to accomplish with this is to find new technologies that they can invest in or use right away. There will not be any competitions or full-scale robot wars, sadly.

If you have a submission, you need to get it in on June 1st. You can see the full schedule here.

The military has been greatly increasing their use of robots lately – they went from having none on the ground at the start of the Iraq war to having over 12,000 now according to P.W. Singer. In an upcoming podcast (the first ever from Robots – For The Win!) this topic is discussed in-depth.