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Press Release(June 5,1998) RoboCup-98 Paris The Second Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences 4 - 8 July, 1998 (Public Access Days, Closed on Monday for Public) La Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris The Second Robot World Cup (RoboCup-98 Paris) will be held at La Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris during 4 - 8 July, 1998. This is a scientific forum to foster robotic and artificial intelligence research using soccer, authorized by The RoboCup Federation (Bern, Switzerland). The RoboCup Federation is the principal international administrative organization on robot soccer and related scientific, educational, and industrial activities. Organizers and Sponsors Organized by: The Univeriste de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie) Centre National de Reserche Scientifique (CNRS), Supported by: La Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie (La Cite), Centre de Robotique Integree d'Ile de France (CRIIF), European Community (EC), Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. RoboCup World Wide Sponsors: Sony Corporation, NAMCO Ltd., SUNX Limited Official Supplier: Molten Corporation (balls for the middle size league) RoboCup-98 Paris Overview RoboCup-98 Paris is the Second Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences. The first Robot World Cup was held in August 1997 at Nagoya, in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 1997 (IJCAI-97), and was attended by over 50 participant teams (32 simulator teams, 4 small-size robot teams, and 5 middle-size robot teams), with over 7,000 spectators, and world media. Since then, RoboCup has been recognized as one of the most important activities in robotics and artificial intelligence research. The dramatic increase in number of participating teams for RoboCup-98 Paris signifies the excitement of the community. RoboCup-98 Paris will have over 80 teams (nearly 40 simulator teams, 12 small size robot teams, 18 middle size robot teams, 3 legged robot teams) and many other related exhibitions and technical presentations (nearly 100 papers are to be presented). RoboCup is not just for the teams who compete in each of the leagues. This year there is an exhibition of RoboCup-related technologies which are not directly related to competing teams. For example, the RoboCup Commentator Exhibition demonstrates a number of systems which automatically generate soccer commentary for simulation league games. It They understand what is going on in the game, analyze the performance of each player, create hypothesis on interesting topics to provide comments on, and generate fluent commentary in different languages. The applications of such a technology are enormous, for example, in internet broadcast. The future of Robotics and AI technologies can also be seen at RoboCup, such as Sony's legged robots and Honda's humanoid robot. Sony will organize a special demonstration as a part of RoboCup Technical Exhibition Program, where their legged robot will be demonstrated. Honda will be showing a video presentation of their recent progress with their ground breaking humanoid robot which was first demonstrated last year. For more details, please visit our web site: http://www.robocup.org/ Or contact:
Participants for RoboCup-98 Paris (As of June 1, 1998 Subject to change) Simulator League AT-Humboldt-97: Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany World Champion 97 AT-Humboldt-98: Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany 1998 Version of AT-humboldt97 Andhill-98: Tomohito Andou (NEC Corporation) Finalist of RoboCup-97 and Winner of RoboCup Japan Open 98 Linkoeping Lizard: Linkoeping University, Sweden Stockholm Univ., Sweden Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden University of Oulu, Finland University of Leuven, Belgium Univeristy of Amsterdam, The Netherland Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany University of Ulm, Germany DFKI GmbH / Universitat des Saarlandes, Germany Munich University of Technology, Germany Dresden University of Technology, Germany Mainz Rolling Brains: University of Mainz, Germany. University of Karlsruhe, Germany Politecnico di Milano - Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Italy University of Bologna, Italy LAI: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain ISocRob: ISR/IST, Tech. Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal Cambridge University, UK Laboratory LIP6, Universite Paris 6, France IMAG, Albert Bonniot institute, France ENSEA (Ecole Nationale de l'electronique et de ses applications), France PaSo-Team: The University of Padua, Italy, University of Bologna, Italy Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Science, Poland Warsaw Technical University, Poland CMUnited: Carnegie Mellon University, USA UBC_Dynamo2: University of British Columbia, Canada. ISIS: Information Science Institute/University of Southern California, USA University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Dartmouth College New Hampshire, USA University of Texas at Austin, USA Darwin United: Carnegie Mellon University, USA Universidade Federal Santa Catarina - UFSC, Brazil The Korea: Solvit Inc., South Korea Waseda University, Japan Chubu University, Japan Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Chukyo University, Japan Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Small-Size Robot League CMUnited: Carnegie Mellon University, USA World Champion 97 IXS: IXS Research, Japan ENSIB: Univ. Orleans, France Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal I-SPACE: Utsunomiya Univ. and Univ. of Tokyo, Japan. Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University, UK J-Star98: J-Star Robot Soccer Team, Tokyo, Japan Universite Paris-6, Paris, France MIME-IA: Universite Paris-8, France VUB AI-lab team, Brussel RoboRoos: University of Queensland, Australia University of Western Australia Middle-Size Robot League Dreamteam: ISI / University of Southern California, USA World Champion 97 Osaka University, Japan World Champion 97 Ullanta Performance Robotics, U.S.A. RMIT Raiders II: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia The Deakin Black Knights: Deakin University, Australia Yale University, USA University of Ulm, Germany CS Freiburg: Institut fuer Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, Germany, FGBV: Munich University of Technology, Germany University of Tuebingen, Germany GMD-SET, St. Augustin, Germany ART --- Azzurra Robot Team: RoboCup-Italia Project --- The Italian National Team ISocRob: ISR/IST, Tech. Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal Universite Paris-6, Laboratorie Robotique de Paris, France ENSEA: Ecole Nationale Superior de l'Electronique et de ses Applications, France REAL MAGICOL: Colombia-France Cooperation. Univers idad del Valle - Grupo PAyRA - Colombia, Universite d'Evry Val d'Essonne - LaMI - France, and Colciencias Sharif Univ of Tech, Tehran, IRAN Uttori United: Utsunomiya University, Toyo University and Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), NAIST-RoboCup: Nara Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Japan Exhibitions Full Set Small Size Robot League (Up to 11 Small-Size Robots on the Middle Size League Field)
Legged Robot Games and Exhibitions
RoboCup Commentator Exhibition
Sony Legged Robot Exhibition Robot Half-Time Show The Self-Made Man and the Moon, Ullanta Performance Robotics Honda Humanoid Robot Video Presentation University of Aarhus LEGO Robot Football Demonstration Webots RoboCup Simulator Exhibition Schedule July 2 - 3 : Technical Workshops and Robot Team Set Up / Training July 4 - 8 : Preliminary rounds and Finals : Public Access 10h-18h (Sunday 10h-19h, Closed on Monday for public) July 9 : Post-Competition Workshop (at Paris-VI) Location La Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie 30, avenue Corentin-Cariou, 75019 Paris Access by Car: Peripherique Nord, exit Porte de la Villette Access by Metro: Porte de la Villette Phone: 01 40 05 80 00 The RoboCup Federation --- The Robot World Cup Initiative RoboCup, The Robot World Cup Initiative, was launched to promote state-of-the-art in robotics and AI research, as well as providing a platform for integrated projectoriented education. It has encouraged international joint projects involving over 20 countries and nearly 1,000 researchers. While RoboCup Federation (established in Bern, Switzerland, as a non-profit organization, with operational headquarter in Tokyo, Japan) itself does not have a research group of its own, each of the participant laboratories and corporations advance toward the common goal. The main function of the RoboCup Federation is to organize annual conferences and competitions, and to foster technical exchange among researchers. One of the effective ways to promote engineering research, apart from specific application developments, is to set a significant long term goal. When significant social impact is achieved by accomplishing such a goal, the goal is referred to as a grand challenge project. Building a robot to play soccer itself does not generate significant social and economic impact, but the accomplishment will certainly considered a major achievement in the field. We call this kind of project a landmark project. RoboCup is a landmark project. Our ultimate goal is: By the mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a game of soccer, complying with the official rules of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup. This goal may sound overly ambitious given the state-of-the-art technology today. Nevertheless, we believe it is important that such a long term goal is to be claimed and identified and pursued. It took only 50 years from the Wright Brother's first aircraft flight to Apollo mission to send man to the moon and safely return them to earth. Also, it took only 50 years, from the invention of the digital computer to the Deep Blue, which beat a human champion at chess. We recognize, however, that building humanoid soccer players requires an equally long period and extensive efforts of a broad range of researchers, and the goal will not be met in the near future. Nevertheless, we believe the goal should be pursued, and we have identified this as the RoboCup challenge. In order to accomplish the mission, a broad range of technologies has to be developed and we believe they will be applied to various social and industrial applications. Future RoboCup RoboCup Pacific Rim Series 98 Singapore, Nov. 22-27, 1998 In conjunction with the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-98). RoboCup-1999 Stockholm, July 31-August 6, 1998 In conjunction with International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99) RoboCup-2000 The announcement will be made soon. Berlin (with the Berlin Festival) and Melbourne (with the Olympic Game) are possible candidates. RoboCup-2001 Seattle(tentaitve), late August, 2001. In conjunction with International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2001) RoboCup-2002 Japan(city to be announced) In conjunction with World Cup 2002 Korea-Japan Other RoboCup events will be announced soon. Please visit, http://www.robocup.org/ for up-to-date information. |
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