Newswise — The countdown begins for RoboCup 2007 Atlanta. The world's most renowned competition for research robotics, RoboCup 2007 Atlanta will be held at Georgia Tech July 3-10.
Approximately 2,000 students and faculty from leading universities, high schools and middle schools from more than 20 countries will descend on Tech's campus to participate in events ranging from four-legged and humanoid robotic soccer games to search-and-rescue competitions. This year features the debut of the Nanogram League, a competition between microscopic robots. KUKA Robotics Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of industrial robots, is the event's premier sponsor.
"As an emerging global leader in robotics research and innovation, Georgia Tech is pleased to host RoboCup 2007," said Tucker Balch, Georgia Tech College of Computing associate professor and RoboCup 2007 Atlanta general chair. "We welcome the international robotics community to our campus and look forward to the exciting competition."
RoboCup 2007 Atlanta invites interested media to register online to attend and receive updates at http://www.robocup-us.org/press/ .
Other major sponsors include CITIZEN, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft and the National Science Foundation.
This summer is Robot Summer at Georgia Tech. In addition to RoboCup 2007 Atlanta, Georgia Tech will also host several other robotics-related events, including the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference and an International Aerial Robotics Competition.
RoboCup 2007 Atlanta Schedule: July 3: RoboCup Opening Ceremony July 3-6: RoboCup Qualifying Competitions July 7-8: RoboCup Finals July 9-10: RoboCup Symposium
About RoboCup RoboCup is an international research and education initiative. Its goal is to foster artificial intelligence and robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be examined and integrated. The concept of soccer-playing robots was first introduced in 1993. In July 1997, the first official conference and games were held in Nagoya, Japan, followed by Paris, Stockholm, Melbourne, Seattle, Fukuoka/Busan, Padua, Lisbon, Osaka and Bremen. This year, the 11th anniversary of RoboCup, the competition and symposium are being held in Atlanta, Georgia. For more details about RoboCup 2007 including participants and updated schedule, visit http://www.robocup-us.org/.
About Georgia Tech:The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premiere research universities. Ranked eighth among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's 17,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
LinksRoboCup 2007 http://www.robocup-us.org/RoboCup 2007 Atlanta Announcement http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=1216Robotics & Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech http://www.robotics.gatech.edu/KUKA Robotics http://www.kukarobotics.com
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