July 2001
From Carnegie Mellon University
RoboCup 2001 press conference and demo will preview competitions of autonomous, soccer-playing robots beginning in Seattle, Saturday, Aug. 4 Event: Preview the upcoming contests of RoboCup 2001, a five-year-old sporting and scientific event featuring more than 100 teams of autonomous soccer-playing robots from 23 countries making its U.S. debut at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center Aug. 4-10. Experts in artificial intelligence will explain the significance of the competition in the context of AI. RoboCup 2001 includes four leagues of competing robots, plus a competition between search-and-rescue robots, a demonstration of humanoid robots and RoboCup Junior, a soccer competition between robots designed by middle and high school students from around the world. The competitions take place in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). RoboCup 2001 worldwide sponsors are Sony Corp. and SGI. AAAI and Carnegie Mellon University are local sponsors. For more details, see www.robocup.org.When: 10 a.m. (Pacific), Friday, Aug 3, 2001.
Where: Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Room 307-308, Level 3, 800 Convention Place, Seattle.
Photo Opp: At approximately 10:50 a.m., following press conference speakers and Q&A, demos of soccer-playing robots take place in Exhibit Hall A, Level 4, Press conference scheduled speakers include:
- Everett Billingslea, general counsel to the governor, State of Washington
- Bernhard Nebel, program chair, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Dr. Hiroaki Kitano, president, RoboCup Federation, senior researcher, Sony Computer Science Laboratories
- Masahiro Fujita, principal scientist and system architect, Sony Corp. Digital Creatures Laboratory
- Bob Bishop, chairman and CEO, SGI
- Dr. Manuela Veloso, general chair, RoboCup 2001, associate professor, computer science and robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
- Tucker Balch, co-chair, American Association for Artificial Intelligence Robot Competition and Exhibition
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