Java Coming to FIRST Robotics Competition
It's the culmination of an international competition that last year included a total of more than 40,000 participants and 1,680 teams from 11 countries. This year's championship is being held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta (April 16-18, 2009), with thousands of spectators in attendance. FIRST was founded by Dean Kamen, best known as the inventor of the Segway. And the open source Sun SPOT platform and Squawk VM play a big role in it.