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ATLANTA, May 30 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ –

Soccer-Playing and Search-and-Rescue Robots to Compete in World’s Largest
Robotics Competition in July

The countdown begins for RoboCup 2007 Atlanta. The world’s most renowned
competition for research robotics, RoboCup 2007 Atlanta will be held at Georgia
Institute of Technology July 3-10. Approximately 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 features a demonstration of the Nanogram League, a
competition between microscopic robots. KUKA Robotics Corporation, a leading
global manufacturer of industrial robots, is the event’s premier sponsor.

"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 2007 Atlanta invites interested media to register online to attend
and receive updates at http://www.robocup-us.org/press/.
Other major sponsors include CITIZEN, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft and the
National Science Foundation.

This summer is Robot Summer at Georgia Tech. In addition to RoboCup 2007
Atlanta, Georgia Tech will also host several other robotics-related events,
including the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference and an
International Aerial Robotics Competition.

RoboCup 2007 Atlanta Schedule:
July 3: RoboCup Opening Ceremony
July 3-6: RoboCup Qualifying Competitions
July 7-8: RoboCup Finals
July 9-10: RoboCup Symposium

About RoboCup
RoboCup is an international research and education initiative. Its goal is
to foster artificial intelligence and robotics research by providing a
standard problem where 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, followed by Paris, Stockholm, Melbourne, Seattle, Fukuoka/Busan, Padua,
Lisbon, Osaka and Bremen. This year, the 11th anniversary of RoboCup, the
competition and symposium are being held in Atlanta, Georgia. For more details
about RoboCup 2007 including participants and updated schedule, visit
http://www.robocup-us.org .

Links
— RoboCup 2007: http://www.robocup-us.org/
— RoboCup: http://www.robocup.org
— Robotics & Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech:
http://www.robotics.gatech.edu/
— KUKA Robotics: http://www.kukarobotics.com

SOURCE Georgia Institute of Technology

/CONTACT: Rebecca Biggs of GCI Group, +1-404-260-3510,
press@robocup-us.org, for Georgia Institute of Technology/
/Web site: http://www.robocup-us.org
http://www.robocup.org
http://www.robotics.gatech.edu
http://www.kukarobotics.com /