The Autonomous Intelligent Systems Group of University of Bonn invites
applications for multiple Postdoctoral and fully funded PhD positions.
Candidates should have a background in one of the following research areas:
* Deep learning,
* Computer vision,
* Pattern recognition,
* Machine learning,
* Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM),
* Manipulation and locomotion planning,
* Human-robot interaction,
* Micro aerial vehicles,
* Service robots,
* Humanoid robots, or
* Search and rescue robots.
Candidates for Postdoctoral positions must hold a PhD with very good results
in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering or a related field.
Top-level publications and good organizational skills are important.
Successful candidates will have the opportunity to develop their own
research
agenda and at the same time contribute to the ongoing projects linked below,
guiding PhD students and master students. Payment will be according to
TV-L-E14 (52,000-66,000 Euros per annum, depending on experience).
Candidates for PhD positions must hold a very good university Master's
degree
in computer science, mathematics, electrical engineering, or a related
field.
A strong mathematical background and programming skills are necessary.
Successful candidates will conduct focused research towards a PhD in
Computer
Science and contribute to one of the ongoing projects linked below, guiding
master and bachelor students. Payment will be according to TV-L-E13 (44,000-
51,000 Euros per annum, depending on experience).
Applications in PDF format should be sent by email to behnke @ ais .
uni-bonn
. de with the subject line "Postdoc Application AIS" or "PhD Application
AIS".
Please indicate in your cover letter your main achievements, the
research area
or project where you want to contribute, and your availability date. A
list of
publications and transcripts must be included. There is no application
deadline. Positions will be filled as soon as possible.
Autonomous Intelligent Systems Group:
The University of Bonn has a long tradition in computer vision and robotics
research and multiple outstanding groups in these areas. The Autonomous
Intelligent Systems Group, headed by Sven Behnke, has developed
award-winning
cognitive robot systems, including domestic service robots, autonomous
micro
aerial vehicles, humanoid soccer robots, robots for mobile manipulation in
rough terrain, bin-picking robots, and robots for intuitive human-robot
interaction. Contributions include deep learning architectures and
algorithms,
efficient methods for RGB-D and laser-based SLAM, semantic environment
perception, robot navigation, object manipulation and tool use, bipedal
walking, multimodal human-robot interaction, and learning from
demonstrations
and own experience.
Useful links:
* Ongoing projects in Autonomous Intelligent Systems group:
http://www.ais.uni-bonn.de/jobs.html
* Autonomous Intelligent Systems group: http://www.ais.uni-bonn.de
* Robotics in Bonn: http://robotics.uni-bonn.de
* Bonn Computer Science: https://www.informatik.uni-bonn.de/en
* University of Bonn: https://www.uni-bonn.de/startpage?set_language=en
* Federal City of Bonn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn
Advanced Speech Technology Lab. at NICT, Japan has two open positions
for *Postdoctoral Researchers*.
## ABOUT NICT-UCRI (NICT Universal Communication Research Institute)
NICT is a Japanese national research institute that focuses on
information and communications technology. NICT employs 900
researchers/engineers/staffs, and has ten research centers. NICT-UCRI is
one of them, and is situated 30km south of Kyoto, a historical city of
Japan.
## ABOUT THE POSITIONS
- The positions are offered at a one-year basis, and are renewable until
March 2021.
- The salary will depend on qualifications and experience.
- The successful candidates will have access to our software engines and
large-scale corpora for spoken dialogue studies.
## HOW TO APPLY
http://www.nict.go.jp/en/general_affairs/employment/index-e-top2016-10.html
Closing date: Jan 12, 2017.
## POSITIONS
(1) Reference: 2017R-30
* Research Topic: "Spoken Language Understanding and Motion Generation
Using Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Information for Domestic Service Robots"
* Abstract: The objective of this project is to investigate spoken
language understanding methods using linguistic and non-linguistic
information for domestic service robots. As a successful candidate, you
will focus on applying machine learning methods to train probabilistic
models with large-scale linguistic and non-linguistic data obtained from
physical/cyber spaces, as well as on language understanding, dialogue,
and motion generation that are dependent on the situations and users.
* Minimum Qualifications
- Ph.D. in computer science, informatics, robotics, or a related field
- Strong publication record in the fields related to robot learning,
machine learning, spoken language processing, computer vision,
human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence
- Good communication skills in spoken and written English
* Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive programming skills in Python/JavaScript/MATLAB/C++
- Independent and persistent personality, as well as a team player
* Details
http://www2.nict.go.jp/employment/tempstaffinfo/exr-e/H29/2017R-30.pdf
(2) Reference: 2017R-29
* Research topic: "Scene understanding and situated dialogues with robots"
* Abstract: The objective of this project is to investigate scene
understanding and situated dialogues as the fundamental spoken dialogue
technologies for receptionist agents or service robots that can
communicate in multiple languages. As a successful candidate, you will
focus on scene understanding in multiparty conversations such as the
estimation of speakers' positions and roles, as well as spoken dialogue
systems with situated spoken language understanding and recommendation
capabilities.
* Minimum Qualifications
- Ph.D. in computer science, signal processing, robotics, or a related field
- Strong publication record in the fields related to robot audition,
multimodal interaction, spoken language processing, dialogue systems,
machine learning, computer vision, human-computer interaction, or
artificial intelligence
- Good communication skills in spoken and written English
* Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive programming skills in Python, C++, or others
- Independent and persistent personality, as well as a team player
* Details
http://www2.nict.go.jp/employment/tempstaffinfo/exr-e/H29/2017R-29.pdf
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Komei Sugiura, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
3-5 Hikaridai, Seika, Soraku, Kyoto 619-0289, Japan
Email: komei.sugiura(a)nict.go.jp
URL: http://komeisugiura.jp/index_en.html
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RELEASE OF LU4R
*http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/lu4r.html
<http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/lu4r.html>*
==========================================
We are happy to announce the release of LU4R, an adaptive spoken Language
Understanding system For(4) Robots, that is the result of the collaboration
between the Semantic Analytics Group (*SAG*) at the University of Roma, Tor
Vergata, and the Laboratory of Cognitive Cooperating Robots (*Lab.Ro.Co.Co
<http://Lab.Ro.Co.Co>.*) at Sapienza, University of Rome.
LU4R receives as input one or more transcriptions of a spoken command and
produces a logical form made of one or more linguistic predicates
reflecting the actions intended by the user. Predicates, as well as their
arguments, are consistent with a linguistically motivated representation
and coherent with the environment perceived by the robot. The
interpretation process is sensitive to different configurations of the
environment (possibly synthesized through a Semantic Map or different
approaches) that represent the whole information about possible entities
populating the operating context.
LU4R consists of a cascade of morphological, syntactic and semantic
processes relying on external libraries (e.g. Stanford NLP chain) and
statistical semantic role labeling specific components. It is actually
released for English ([1]) but a version for Italian is already available
([2]). The language understanding components have been trained using
realistic robotic commands, which are also derived from the RoboCup@Home
Corpus [3]. The chain is fully implemented in Java and released according
to a Client/Server architecture, in order to decouple the chain from the
specific robotic platform that will use it. The robot engineer just needs
to initialize the LU4R server and communication is supported through
standard HTTP requests. The current release contains additional facilities
to use third-party state-of-the-art speech to text services. These make the
integration of a ROS operated robot and a full operational chain very
simple: LU4R can be also invoked from a smartphone!
LU4R has been presented at IJCAI 2016 [1] and at the International
Conference of the Italian Association on Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA),
2016. [2], i.e.,
[1] "*A Discriminative Approach to Grounded Spoken Language Understanding
in Interactive Robotics*", *Emanuele Bastianelli, Danilo Croce, Andrea
Vanzo, Roberto Basili, Daniele Nardi*, Proceedings of IJCAI '16, NY (USA),
2016.
[2] "*Spoken Language Understanding for Service Robotics in Italian*", *Andrea
Vanzo, Danilo Croce, Giuseppe Castellucci, Roberto Basili, Daniele Nardi*,
Proceedings of AI*IA 2016: 477-489.
[3] “RoboCup@Home Spoken Corpus: Using Robotic Competitions for Gathering
Datasets
<http://fei.edu.br/rcs/2014/SpecialTrackDev/robocupsymposium2014_submission_…>”,
*Emanuele Bastianelli, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi, Giuseppe Castellucci,
Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili, *Proceedings of the RoboCup Symposium (2014).
You can find more information about LU4R and download it at:
*http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/lu4r.html
<http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/lu4r.html>*
For any question or support, please refer to: croce(a)info.uniroma2.it
<croce(a)info.uniroma2.it?Subject=LU4R%20support> or vanzo(a)dis.uniroma1.it
Enjoy!
The LU4R team
--
Danilo Croce
Department of Enterprise Engineering
AI Research Group
University of Roma, Tor Vergata
Via del Politecnico 1
00133 Roma, Italy
Tel. +39-06-72597721
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*** 1st CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***
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[Apologies for any cross-posting]
CLAWAR 2017
20th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots
and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines,
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
11-13 September 2017
(https://clawar.org/clawar2017/)
Dear colleague,
We are pleased to inform you that CLAWAR 2017 will be held within the
premises of Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal,
during 11-13 September 2017.
The conference will feature technical and social programs. The technical
program will comprise plenary, regular, and special/invited sessions.
All articles submitted for inclusion in the conference will be peer
reviewed before acceptance. It is envisaged that all accepted papers
will appear in the conference proceedings, to be published by World
Scientific Publishing Company and indexed in SCOPUS, as well as on
CD/flash drive, subject to registration of at least one author for
presenting the work. A selection of presented papers will also be
recommended for possible publication in reputable ISI-indexed scientific
journals. CLAWAR 2017 will also feature Robot Competition and Industrial
Robot Exhibition.
== Scope ==
Original contributions in the general area of mobile robotics, covering
climbing, walking, flying robots with assistance and service provided
to humans and machines are welcome. The conference will cover analysis
(modelling and simulation) techniques, design approaches and developed
robotic systems. Support technologies for realisation of such systems,
associated economic, ethical and social considerations are integral part
of the conference theme.
== Key dates ==
21 Dec 2016: Proposals for workshops/ special sessions
01 Feb 2017: Submission of full draft papers
15 Mar 2017: Notification of paper acceptance
12 Apr 2017: Submission of final (accepted) papers
03 May 2017: Early bird registration (reduced fee)
05 Jul 2017: Preliminary program
11-13 Sep 2017: Conference
We would like to invite you to submit your contributions according to the
key dates given above.
== Submission of Papers ==
The technical program of the conference will feature Regular Papers, Special
Session Papers, and Poster presentations. Authors are invited to submit their
full draft papers in PDF format using the URL
(https://www.softconf.com/g/clawar2017) or from the paper submission page of
the conference web-site by the indicated deadline for consideration for
nclusion in the relevant category (special/regular paper). Please note that
you should first register to create an account on the system, if not done so
yet, before submitting your contribution.
All papers will be peer reviewed before acceptance, and all accepted papers
(subject to registration) will be published in the conference proceedings.
Final accepted papers will be limited to 8 pages in length in the prescribed
style and format given in the paper submission web page.
A selection of presented papers will also be recommended for possible
publication in reputable international journals.
== Workshop and Special Session Proposals==
Proposals should be submitted to the Conference Secretariat and a copy sent
to Professor Gurvinder S. Virk (gsvirk(a)clawar.org). Each proposal should be
limited to one A4 page in length and must include title, aims/objectives,
brief outline/scope, name and affiliation of the organizer(s).
== Exhibition ==
Organisations and research groups can promote their robots and robotics
research work by exhibiting these at the conference. Those wishing to
participate in the exhibition programme of the conference are invited to
seek relevant information via the conference web-site.
== Robot competition ==
The conference will feature a "Climbing Robot Competition". Research groups
wishing to take part in the competition are invited to seek relevant
information via the conference web-site.
== Sponsorship ==
Organisations wishing to sponsor the conference in any way and gain the
corresponding benefits, by promoting themselves and their products to the
robotics community through conference publications, conference web-site and
conference publicity, are invited to view relevant information on the
conference web-site and further to contact the conference secretariat to
discuss the terms of sponsorship and necessary arrangements.
Conference web-site: https://www.clawar.org/clawar2017
Secretariat:
CLAWAR 2017 Secretariat
Email: clawar2017(a)clawar.org
Kind regards
Manuel F. Silva and Gurvinder S. Virk, Conference Co-Chairs
M. Osman Tokhi, International Scientific Committee Chair
Benedita Malheiro, Local Organising Chair
Manuel Silva
Professor Adjunto
Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica
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ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431
4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL
tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159
mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt<http://www.isep.ipp.pt>
* Time-constrained Signal, Image and Video Processing in Robotics *
SIGNAL 2017, May 21 - 25, 2017 - Barcelona, Spain
The Second International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video
Processing - from Sensing to Applications
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/SIGNAL17.html
*****************************************
[Apologies for any cross-posting]
Dear Colleague,
The Second International Conference on Advances in Signal, Image and Video
Processing, SIGNAL 2017 (http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/SIGNAL17.html)
will take place next May in Barcelona, Spain and will include several
special sessions, namely one on Time-constrained Signal, Image and Video
Processing in Robotics.
This thematic track will provide an opportunity to bring together
researchers with interests in signal processing applied to robots and
autonomous systems. This special session aims to receive contributions
regarding innovative concepts, methodologies and techniques in the field of
robotics, computer vision and signal processing, as well applications of
these developments to solving practical problems.
As chair of that special session, I would like to invite you to submit
papers in the following and related areas:
* human-robot interaction
* localization, mapping and navigation
* vision based control
* object detection, segmentation and categorization
* semantic scene understanding and categorization
* robustness and generalization of algorithms to conditions and
environments
* multimodal sensor fusion
* sensor calibration
* Signal Processing Architectures
* real-time and efficient solutions for applications
*PRELIMINARY DATES*
* Paper submission: 3rd January, 2017
* Notification of acceptance: 3rd March, 2017
* Camera ready: 9th April, 2017
* CONTRIBUTION TYPES *
* Regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
* Short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
* Posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
* Posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
* Presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
* Demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]
* REVIEW PROCESS *
PAAMS welcomes the submission of application papers with preference to the
topics listed in the call for papers. All submitted papers will undergo a
thorough review process; each paper will be refereed by at least three
experts in the field based on relevance, originality, significance, quality
and clarity.
The papers must consist of original, relevant and previously unpublished
sound research results related to any of the topics of the conference
* PUBLICATION *
* See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html
* Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
* Submission site:
www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=SIGNAL+201…
* SPECIAL ISSUES *
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to
one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:
http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library:
http://www.thinkmind.org
Best Regards,
Antonio Neves
-- --
António J. R. Neves, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
DETI / IEETA, University of Aveiro, Portugal
http://sweet.ua.pt/an/
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Betreff: RoboCup German Open 2017: Call for Participation (DEADLINE 15 DECEMBER)
Datum: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 19:49:18 +0100
Von: Ansgar Bredenfeld <ansgar.bredenfeld(a)dr-bredenfeld.de>
Organisation: Dr. Bredenfeld UG
An: robocup-worldwide(a)cc.gatech.edu
Dear RoboCuppers,
just a reminder of the STRICT Major League registration deadline for the RoboCup
German Open 2017.
*** It is December 15th, 2016 ***
The registration deadline for Junior was November 30. 500 RoboCup Junior teams
registered for the six qualification tournaments. The best teams of these
tournaments will take part in the German RoboCup Junior Final during the RoboCup
German Open 2017. See you all there.
Best regards,
Ansgar
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RoboCup German Open 2017
Call for Participation
https://www.robocupgermanopen.de
5 - 7 May 2017
MESSE MAGDEBURG, Germany
The RoboCup German Open 2017 will be the 15th open RoboCup
competition held in Germany. The event will take place in Magdeburg
at MESSE MAGDEBURG.
-- RoboCup Major Leagues (international teams) ----------------------
Competitions are offered in the following leagues:
- RoboCupSoccer Standard Platform League
- RoboCupSoccer Humanoid League (Kid-Size)
- RoboCupRescue Robot League
- RoboCup@Home League
- RoboCupIndustrial Logistics League
- RoboCupIndustrial RoboCup@Work League
The registration opens *** 15 October 2016 ***.
The registration deadline is *** 15 December 2016 ***.
Visit http://www.robocupgermanopen.de to register your RoboCup Major
League team. Details on the registration (fee, accommodation, rules)
are available on the web site. Booking of blocked accommodation with
special rates is possible after your registration.
The Major Leagues Organising Committee:
- Thomas Röfer (Standard Platform League)
- Reinhard Gerndt (Humanoid League)
- Johannes Pellenz (Rescue Robot League)
- Sven Wachsmuth (RoboCup@Home League)
- Ulrich Karras (Logistics League)
- Sebastian Zug (RoboCup@Work League)
-- Important dates --------------------------------------------------
15.09.2016 Publication of Call for Participation
15.10.2016 Registration opens
15.12.2016 Registration deadline RoboCup Major teams
15.02.2017 Registration deadline team members with names
15.04.2017 Registration fee due
03.05.2017 Set-up day Major League teams
04.05.2017 Set-up day Major League teams
05.05.2017 Competition day (open to public)
06.05.2017 Competition day (open to public)
07.05.2017 Competition day, finals (open to public)
Please contact info(a)robocupgermanopen.de for any questions.
Dear RoboCup@Home teams,
you probably have already received the call below.
Please let me add some useful information about this event that we believe
would be very useful for RoboCup@Home teams.
1) Teams are not required to participate to all the tests (although it
is preferable) and
the final ranks and prizes will be for each TBM/FBM.
Two tests (TBM4 and TBM5) are shared with RoboCup@Home 2016 rules.
2) Since RoboCup 2016 also counted as part of the ERL-SR, some
RoboCup@Home teams have a
good position in the rank. However, to get the prizes, a team needs to
attend to least two tournaments
(see the current standings in
https://sites.google.com/a/dis.uniroma1.it/erl-sr-peccioli/competition).
3) Prizes will be publicly awarded at the European Robotic Forum 2017
(http://www.erf2017.eu/)
It is a great opportunity for the best teams in each TBM/FBM.
4) The local tournament includes also some Software Integration sessions
where we provide
teams with software components that are useful for @Home/Service robots.
In Peccioli we are planning to help teams to install, configure and test
on their robots
the following software components: navigation and speech understanding
More information will be updated soon in
https://sites.google.com/a/dis.uniroma1.it/erl-sr-peccioli/resources
5) A limited number of teams will be accepted and travel support will be
provided.
Deadline for application: ***December 15, 2016***
If you have any question, do not hesitate to contact me.
Best regards,
Luca.
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Call for Participation
European Robotics League (ERL)
Service Robots
3rd Local Tournament
30.1 - 3.2.2017
Echord++ RIF in Peccioli
Peccioli (Pisa), Italy
==================================================================
The European Robotics League is an innovative concept for robot
competitions which focuses on tasks that service robots execute in a
real home environment and is composed of multiple "Local tournaments",
held in different research labs across Europe.
More information about this tournament:http://tinyurl.com/h6ngwoh
Important dates:
* 15 Dec 2016 - Deadline for application and request for travel support
* 23 Dec 2016 - Qualification announcement
Extended call for participation attached.
Best regards,
Luca Iocchi
(on behalf of ERL-SR organizing committee)
*Apologies for duplicate messages*
*Call For Participation*
*RoboCup IranOpen 2017*
*April 03 - 07*
The 12th RoboCup IranOpen competitions will be held in April 03-07, 2017.
Having had the experience of 11 years successful organization of these
competitions, we look forward to an even more glorious event with more teams
competing in this major robotics event from all over the world.
Last year, we had 272 teams from Afghanistan, Canada, China, Germany, Iran,
South Korea, Peru, UK, and USA.
RoboCup IranOpen is an attempt to further promote AI and Robotics research.
These competitions will provide a chance for all researchers to present and
share their experiences and achievements.
The RoboCup IranOpen 2017 competitions leagues are as follows:
- RoboCupSoccer
- Humanoid (Kid Size, Teen Size, Adult Size)
- Middle Size
- Small Size
- Standard Platform
- Soccer 3D Simulation
- Soccer 2D Simulation
- RoboCupRescue
- Rescue Robot
- Rescue Simulation
- Rescue Virtual Robot
- RoboCup@Home
- RoboCupIndustrial
- RoboCup@Work
- RoboCupJunior
- Junior Soccer Open
- Junior Soccer B Light Weight
- Junior Rescue A Primary
- Junior Rescue A Secondary
- Junior Rescue B
- Junior CoSpace Rescue
The following leagues will be also be organized in conjunction with RoboCup
IranOpen 2017:
- Middle Size Intelligent Deminer Robots
- Small Size Intelligent Deminer Robots
- Tele-operated Deminer Robots
- Deminer Technical Challenge
- IranOpenROV (Radio Operated Vehicles - underwater robots)
- IranOpenUAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Indoor and Outdoor)
- Major Demo
- Junior Demo Common Challenge
- Junior Demo Open Challenge
Participation:
All teams are required to pre-register through the online form available in
the website. The pre-registered teams should then submit the relevant
qualification materials.
Last year 316 teams were qualified from 624 pre-registered teams.
Important dates:
- Pre-Registration: November 21, 2016 - January 22, 2017
- Submission of qualification materials: refer to leagues pages in the
website
- Qualification: January 23 - February 19, 2017
- Early Registration: February 20 - March 12, 2017
- Late Registration: March 13 - 31, 2017
For further information please visit our official website at
http://2017.iranopen.ir
For inquiries please contact us via the below email addresses:
- General Inquiries: info(a)iranopen.ir
- Registration: registration(a)iranopen.ir
- Visa & International Affairs: visa(a)iranopen.ir
- Travel Support (for international teams): asadollah_norouzi(a)sp.edu.sg
Regards On behalf of,
Iranian RoboCup Regional Committee
RoboCup IranOpen 2017 Organizing Committee
Dear all,
this mailing list has been moved to a new server and all the settings
and users
have been copied (except passwords).
Since the e-mail address has not changed, you can continue using the
list as before.
To edit your settings (including password), go to
http://lists.robocup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/robocup-athome
enter your e-mail address in the Subscribers section
in the textfield close to the button 'Unsubscribe or edit options'
click the button and follow the instructions in the next page.
The old list (with old passwords) is reachable at
http://oldlists.robocup.org/admin.cgi/robocup-athome-robocup.org
You can read and backup old messages, but the list cannot be used anymore
to send/receive e-mails.
During navigation of the old lists, you may need to manually replace
lists.robocup.org with oldlists.robocup.org in some URLs.
If you have any question or problem, do not hesitate to contact me.
Best regards,
Luca.