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The world's most renowned competition for research robotics, RoboCup 2007 Atlanta will be staged at Georgia Tech July 3-10.
An estimated 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's event also will feature a demonstration of the Nanogram League, a competition between microscopic robots.
"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 is an international research and education initiative. Its goal is to foster artificial intelligence and robotics research by providing a standard problem in which 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.
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