The eleventh edition of RomeCup will be held on March 15-17. RomeCup 2017 – Excellence in Robotics in Rome is promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale as a multi-event: competitions, labs, showcase area, round table, performances and interactive talks hosted by the Engineering Macro-Area at the Università degli Studi di Tor Vergata. The Awards Ceremony on day three will be held at the Rome Campidoglio.
Competitions will feature 142 teams from school in 16 Italian Regions and 2 European Countries, also competing for the Japan RoboCup 2017 selection. The showcase area will feature over 50 prototypes presented by research centres, start-ups, spin-offs and companies, as well as 80 robotic projects by schools that are helping the students to prepare for the new challenges posed by the digital economy and explore new professions.
RomeCup will be inaugurated by the Rector of the University of Tor Vergata, Giuseppe Novelli and Carmela Palumbo, a Director at the Ministry of Education, University and Research. The event will be introduced by Mirta Michilli, Director General of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, and Giovanni Schiavon, Director of the Engineering Macro-Area at the university, which will host the first two days of the event.
The International Federation Robotics posits that by 2019, 2.6 million robots will be at work in factories around the world and 42 million service robots will have been purchased for personal and domestic use, creating new growth and work opportunities.
The absolute protagonists of the eleventh edition of RomeCup are cobots – collaborative robots – that help us study and work, especially in repetitive tasks, and help us in private health care and hospitals. Working with intelligent robots makes digital activities quicker and more flexible. It frees ups space and time for creative thought and the search of innovative solutions.
Indeed, this will be the focus of the round table on the “Work Force of the Brain. Robot Sapiens” that will be held on day one with Giorgio Grioli, Researcher at IIT and the “Centro E. Piaggio”; Eugenio Guglielmelli, Deputy Rector for Research at the Università Campus Bio-Medico in Rome; Luca Iocchi, DIAG Associate Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome; Alfonso Molina, Scientific Director of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale; Antonio Tornambè, Professor of Automation Control at the Università di Roma Tor Vergata and Laura Turini, lawyer and journalist. The round table will be opened by a performance of computer music by Leonello Tarabella (CNR, Pisa) and followed by an algorithmic composition and live performance.
Day two, besdies competitions and labs, will feature two interactive debates with robotic demos. The first, dedicated to “Rehabilitative Robots,” will feature spin-offs, innovative companies and the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital and European Research Programme MaTHiSiS (Horizon2020). The second talk will focus on Italian robotics spin-offs: "From Research to Enterprise” with the universities of Pisa, Naples and Rome. Sapienza University will organise an original workshop with challenges between domestic robots.
Day three of RomeCup will feature the final competitions and awards ceremony at the Rome Campidoglio.
ROMECUP 2017 – EXCELLENCE IN ROBOTICS IN ROME
MARCH 15-16, 2017
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
Engineering Macro-area, Via del Politecnico 1
MARCH 17, 2017
Campidoglio, Sala della Protomoteca
