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Nearly 300 teams from 33 countries are gearing up to compete at RoboCup 2007 Atlanta, the world's most renowned competition for research robotics, at Georgia Tech July 3-10.
"One of RoboCup's great strengths is its diverse international flavor," said Tucker Balch, College of Computing associate professor and RoboCup 2007 Atlanta general chair. "We are able to get people together from many countries and backgrounds to share our research and ideas for making robots more effective."
In all, about 1,700 students and faculty from leading universities, high schools, middle schools and elementary schools will compete in events ranging from four-legged and humanoid robotic soccer games to search-and-rescue competitions. This year's event also will feature a demonstration of the Nanogram League, a competition between microscopic robots.
"RoboCup has an ambitious goal — namely to field a robot soccer team that can defeat the human world champions by 2050. This goal is meant to drive robotics research and education forward faster, and nearly all RoboCup participants come from research universities," said Balch.
Countries that will be represented at RoboCup are Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and the United States.
In addition to RoboCup 2007 Atlanta, Georgia Tech also will host several other robotics-related events, including the Robotics: Science and Systems conference and an international aerial robotics competition.
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