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The time is set. The fourth edition of the RomeCup kicks off next Thursday, March 18: 9.30 a.m. at Itis Galilei (via Conte Verde, 51).
Competitions will be held from 10 am to 5 pm in various categories. The competitions will feature robots designed and assembled by school and university students.
The selections for RoboCup2010, reserved for schools, features three categories: soccer, rescue and dance.
The Robocup Mediterranean Open, is reserved for University teams and features humanoid robots (Nao) in the Standard Platform League category.
The agenda features two full days of competitions in the principal lecture hall of Itis Galileo Galilei (18-19 March) and finals and awards ceremony in the Campidoglio “Sala della Protomoteca” (20 March).
Six awards will be presented, one for each category:
- Robocup Junior Soccer Secondary Open League Field A
- Robocup Junior Soccer Secondary Open League Field B
- Robocup Junior Soccer Secondary Light Weight League Field A
- Robocup Junior Dance Secondary
- Robocup Junior Rescue Secondary
- Standard Platform League
The exhibition area is dedicated to social, medical and didactic applications of robotics and will be held in the atrium of Itis Galilei (Thursday, March 18, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.). More than twenty success stories, ranging from “clapping” robots designed to help disabled children to biomedical robots for rehabilitation and early diagnosis will be featured.
The on-line press folder:
- Press Release
- The Programme
- The Competitions
- The Exhibition Area
- Robotics for Didactics
- Itis Galilei
- Instruction, science and technology: the data
