Social robotics and the challenges of inclusion and sustainability
A multi-event dedicated to the innovation ecosystem on three axes: robotics, artificial intelligence, and life sciences, with a strategic vision: new generations as an enabling technology for development.
Since 2007, RomeCup has been bringing new generations closer to the study of scientific subjects and developing skills and professional profiles for employment. Each edition proposes new "red threads" (women in science, robotics spin-offs, Industry 4.0, life sciences, etc.) to create connections and enrich the innovation ecosystem with vertical and transversal alliances.
The 18th edition, entitled "What's next? Human and Artificial Intelligence. Challenges for Holistic Well-Being", takes place from May 7-9, 2025, at the University of Roma Tre and Campidoglio. The central theme of this edition is innovation at the service of the integral development of people and communities.
For the third year, the "Most Promising Researcher in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence" award is announced, in collaboration with the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome and the University of Roma Tre, for researchers, doctoral students, and/or recent PhDs no more than three years after receiving their degrees, engaged in research projects in robotics and artificial intelligence.
Educational workshops, robotics competitions, college orientation sessions, creative contests, hackathons, inspirational talks, and role modeling sessions: RomeCup offers an extraordinary immersive experience about the present and future of mankind. It is an original vertical accelerator model for development, involving schools, universities, research centers, startups, SMEs, and production districts.
In Italy, there are sector fairs (industrial robotics), category competitions (RoboCup Junior, Nao Challenge, etc.), educational robotics Olympiads (Miur), festivals (Pisa), etc., but no event is as transversal as RomeCup, capable of involving so many different audiences and making everyone a protagonist.
Goals:
- Increasing citizens' confidence in technology
- Engaging the public in a borderless event
- Spreading the benefits of social, inclusive and sustainable robotics
- Stimulate research and development of service technologies
- Preventing the robotic divide
- Reinforcing a virtuous model of "vertical accelerator" based on robotics as "anti-discipline"
The video story of the 2024 edition
