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6 unusual facts about RoboCup


Alan Mackworth

Through regular international RoboCup tournaments many research teams of students and professors compete and cooperate in the development, testing and evolution of new theories and new algorithms.

Almost Human: Making Robots Think

RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1993.

Claude Sammut

He was the leader of the UNSW teams that won RoboCup four-legged robot competitions in 2000, 2001 and 2003 and the CAS team that won the award for best autonomous robot at RoboCup Rescue 2009.

He was a member of the executive committee of the RoboCup Federation from 2003 to 2009 and was the co-editor-in-chief of Springer's Encyclopedia of Machine Learning in 2010.

Hartmut Surmann

His robot KURT3D won the second place in the RoboCup rescue robot league at the world championship in Lisbon in 2004.

Raúl Rojas

The FU-Fighters, football-playing robots he helped build, were world champions in 2004 and 2005.


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IranOpen

Azad University of Qazvin having the successful experience of organizing RoboCup IranOpen2006 decided to organize RoboCup IranOpen2007 in a more broad range.

Azad University of Qazvin as the pioneer in organizing a RoboCup event in Iran prepared a strong proposal for the RoboCup Federation which was then approved by the Federation to organize RoboCup IranOpen2006.

Omnidirectional

Mecanum wheel, a specially designed wheel that allows movement in any direction, such as that used by many robots in the RoboCup Small Size League


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