FIRST in Japan?
 

How has FIRST been impacted in Japan by the recent tragedy? Are any teams from Japan going to be competing?

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

To my knowledge, FRC has no teams in Japan.

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

There aren't? That surprises me. They are so focused on technology!

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

I do recall an FLL team from Japan last year.

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

There are more "hardcore" robot organizations. I mean hardcore as in humanoid bots.

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

True but I don't think that their highschool kids are making those:)

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

Im pretty sure FIRST had a good following in Japan.. Espically for FLL

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

Japan has extreme robotic programs literally everywhere. There are several videos of mouse mazes ran by little robots. I don't have the right time to do it now, but I will get some videos up sometime.

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

Yeah, I know they have FLL I've almost competed against them at worlds last year. I wonder if they will still be around after the tsunami.

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

But what about FIRST teams?

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

To my knowledge there has never been an FRC team in Japan.

There are a lot of FLL teams; they hosted a championship invitational (like the LegoLand or European events).

I don't know about FTC.

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

Japan VEX has been around a few years.

http://robotevents.com/asij-vrx-roboics-challenge.html

I am fairly certain FRC has not started in Asia.
We have had European , south american , Australia but not from ASIA

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

Well, Israel is usually considered Asia, and we have more FRC teams than all the other non-North American locations together (48 Israeli FRC teams this year), so I wouldn't say there is no Asia.

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

Exactly why it should be a low-priority target for FRC.

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

Do the Philippines count for Asia?

Re: FIRST in Japan?
 

I would give it Asia