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Update MSL at RoboCup
by Jorrit Olthuis 24 Mar '25

24 Mar '25

Dear MSL teams, Before the qualification deadline we have contacted everyone to ask about their plans to travel to Brazil, as well as if they are interested in a European MSL event. We want to thank everyone for their response. In this email, we would like to update everyone about the current status. Now that the qualification has finished, we see that very few teams that have qualified for the main competition are considering traveling to Brazil. The RoboCup Federation requires at least 3 teams in the main competition to host MSL. Currently, we are not sure if MSL will meet this criterion. We are contacting the last teams to see if they plan to travel to Brazil. We have no definitive update regarding the European tournament yet. However, we are investigating several options. We are rather positive that a European MSL tournament will be organized in September-December of this year. Location is still to be determined. Best regards, RoboCup MSL Executive Committee

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European competition
by Josip Dujic 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

Hello, do we have location for organising RoboCup MSL 2025 in Europe or it will be in Brazil? We need to know that before 1.3.2025. so we can apply for fundings. Thank you and best regards, Josip Dujić.

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Trip to Brazil' thoughts
by RinCorn 09 Feb '25

09 Feb '25

glad to see you, I'm the teamleader of Team Water, a team of the Robocup 2025 msl  - Is your team currently considering a trip to Brazil?  We are not considering a trip to Brazil - Does your team have the necessary budget for the trip to Brazil? No I don't think so. My teammates and teachers who represent the college don't have the budget to Brazil. - How likely is your team to participate in a European event? Sure We Would like to come to European event, I hope we could meet there from：银桢(Yin Zhen),Team Water

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Falcons Participation Brazil
by Lex Coenen 08 Feb '25

08 Feb '25

Hi ExCom, We are currently looking into the challenge to get support and funding for the expensive trip. With our limited growth in team capabilities, it will be difficult to say the least. So, it's very likely we will not get funding from ASML for the Brazil tournament. If we could organize a European tournament, we would join. Kind regards Lex Coenen Team Captain Falcons Ps. Please add this email to the list. -- Dear RoboCup MSL Teams, We hope this email finds you well. The 13th RoboCup MSL Workshop, organized by the University of Toulon, occurred on January 24 and 25. During the workshop, several important topics were discussed, including the teams' progress, the league's evolution, advancements toward the 2050 objective, and the upcoming RoboCup 2025 in Brazil. One of the key points of discussion was the high costs associated with participating in RoboCup 2025 in Brazil. It was unanimously acknowledged that the estimated costs, including travel with robots, accommodation, and participation fees, would exceed €50,000 per team. This poses a significant challenge, particularly for teams with limited budgets. In light of this, organizing an alternative MSL event in Europe was proposed. Such an event could be more affordable for both European and Asian teams while still providing a competitive and collaborative platform for all participants. This email aims to inform you of the discussions held during the workshop and to gather your feedback on this matter. Your input is important as we consider the best way forward for the MSL community. We will explore alternatives to the Brazil event and send a follow-up email once we have received feedback from all MSL teams. This situation does not eliminate the need for a qualification process (LINK) (deadline: February 28), as this will most likely be used in the event, regardless of the location or organization team. Additionally, if the European event does not occur, the qualification remains necessary for teams wishing to compete in Brazil. Please reply to this email with your thoughts and opinions by February 9. To facilitate your response, please find below the key questions to address: - Is your team currently considering a trip to Brazil? - Does your team have the necessary budget for the trip to Brazil? - How likely is your team to participate in a European event? Thank you for your attention and cooperation. We look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Executive Committee of RoboCup Middle Size League _______________________________________________ RoboCup-mid in RoboCup.org Mailing list To send a message to this list send email to robocup-mid(a)lists.robocup.org To unsubscribe send an email to robocup-mid-leave(a)lists.robocup.org Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> --- The information contained in this communication and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged, and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. Unless explicitly stated otherwise in the body of this communication or the attachment thereto (if any), the information is provided on an AS-IS basis without any express or implied warranties or liabilities. To the extent you are relying on this information, you are doing so at your own risk. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and destroy all copies of this message and any attachments. Neither the sender nor the company/group of companies he or she represents shall be liable for the proper and complete transmission of the information contained in this communication, or for any delay in its receipt.

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Interest attending European MSL event
by Olthuis, Jorrit 31 Jan '25

31 Jan '25

Dear RoboCup MSL Teams, We hope this email finds you well. The 13th RoboCup MSL Workshop, organized by the University of Toulon, occurred on January 24 and 25. During the workshop, several important topics were discussed, including the teams' progress, the league's evolution, advancements toward the 2050 objective, and the upcoming RoboCup 2025 in Brazil. One of the key points of discussion was the high costs associated with participating in RoboCup 2025 in Brazil. It was unanimously acknowledged that the estimated costs, including travel with robots, accommodation, and participation fees, would exceed €50,000 per team. This poses a significant challenge, particularly for teams with limited budgets. In light of this, organizing an alternative MSL event in Europe was proposed. Such an event could be more affordable for both European and Asian teams while still providing a competitive and collaborative platform for all participants. This email aims to inform you of the discussions held during the workshop and to gather your feedback on this matter. Your input is important as we consider the best way forward for the MSL community. We will explore alternatives to the Brazil event and send a follow-up email once we have received feedback from all MSL teams. This situation does not eliminate the need for a qualification process (LINK)<https://msl.robocup.org/uncategorized/2025-call-for-participation> (deadline: February 28), as this will most likely be used in the event, regardless of the location or organization team. Additionally, if the European event does not occur, the qualification remains necessary for teams wishing to compete in Brazil. Please reply to this email with your thoughts and opinions by February 9. To facilitate your response, please find below the key questions to address: - Is your team currently considering a trip to Brazil? - Does your team have the necessary budget for the trip to Brazil? - How likely is your team to participate in a European event? Thank you for your attention and cooperation. We look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Executive Committee of RoboCup Middle Size League

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by JosipDujic_RC_MSL_TC 12 Jan '25

12 Jan '25

Hello, My name is Josip Dujić, and I am sorry to inform you that my team, Udruga Mehatroničara from Croatia, was unable to raise enough funds to participate in the 2025 RoboCup MSL competition in Brazil. However, three of us would still like to come and volunteer. Our question is: do we need to pay for registration, and what is the process for us to be there and assist the rest of the team? Best regards, Josip Dujić

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Call for Participation: RoboCup2025 Middle Size League
by 刘斐 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Call for Participation  RoboCup 2025 Middle Size League July 15 to 21, 2025 (Salvador, Brazil) https://2025.robocup.org We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2025 RoboCup MSL World Championships. If you are interested to participate, please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2025 MSL competitions.  1)    Pre-registration  For the pre-registration please send an e-mail to rc-msl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org and liufei(a)caa.org.cn containing the following data: ·   Team name ·   URL of the team’s home page ·   Name of the team leader ·   E-mail address of team or team leader ·   Affiliation ·   Country ·   Link to the qualification materials  Please send more information about teams to introduce them better on MSL website(https://msl.robocup.org/teams). Sending following information would be optional: ·   Logo ·   Profile (Describe team with at most 150 words). ·   Most research topics (up to 6 topics)   2)    Qualification materials  Please note that, according to the rules, the evaluation of some parts of the qualification materials will contribute to the scientific challenge final result.  By the time of pre-registration, please have ready the following qualification materials:  a)    A Team Description Paper describing the most innovative contributions or scientific results (the TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). b)    A list of 5 scientiﬁc papers published during the last 5 years of the team which are related to RoboCup. Abstracts of these papers and a complete reference to each paper must also be submitted. When more papers are submitted, only the first 5 will be considered. c)    A list of results and awards obtained by the team in the last 3 years. d)    A video showing the capabilities of the team’s robots (the maximum duration of the video is 60 seconds; if the submitted video is longer than 60 seconds, only the first 60 seconds will be considered for evaluation). e)    A list of contributions of the team to the RoboCup MSL community. f)     Declaration if the team will be part of a mixed team. g)    A mechanical and electrical description together with a software flow chart. h)   List of MAC Addresses used by the team, with explicit indication of those that will be used for wireless communication and their type: robots or development computers. All other MAC addresses will be blocked. (Modifications are allowed before the competition, no later than July 8, 2025.) i)    List of size and weight of the robots (If there are many different robots, please give the data for each type separately. Modifications are allowed before the competition, no later than July 8, 2025.): Dimensions: Length*Width*Height(cm) Weight: (kg)  For being able to participate in the RoboCup competition, teams have to ensure, at least, the minimum cumulative following criteria: ·   Demonstrate in the video that they are able to perform the basic actions to be able to play. ·   Produce a Team Description Paper (TDP) according to the above definition. ·   Obtain a minimum of 50 points in the overall qualification procedure.  The details regarding the qualification materials are contained in the rules and regulations document available at https://msl.robocup.org. Please read it thoroughly.  The qualification materials should be placed in a dedicated page of the team's web page. Please include the link to the qualification materials in the pre-registration information. 3)    Important dates  ·   Deadline for pre-registration and submission of the qualification materials: February 28, 2025 ·   Announcement of qualified teams: March 15, 2025  4)    Rules  The rules and regulations for the RoboCup 2025 Middle Size League had been published at: https://msl.robocup.org/rules  The updated rules and regulations had been released by December 31, 2024   5)    Publication  Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams the qualification materials of the qualified teams will be made publicly available. Therefore, teams applying for participation, grant the right of publication of their qualification materials to the MSL league(MAC addresses are an exception and should remain private).   6)    Plagiarism  Plagiarism, loosely the unattributed use of other peoples' words, code and ideas (see “https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism.html” for a more detailed description) is not tolerated in the RoboCup community.  The teams and team members that plagiarize other peoples' work and present it as their own will be disqualified. For a first offense, the team and team members will be banned from RoboCup competition for two years (usually the current and next year). Harsher penalties will be applied to repeat offenders or extremely serious cases of plagiarism. A team may be disqualified at any time for plagiarism, even after the competition has started. RoboCup will not reimburse teams for any expenses related to their disqualification.   7)   Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams  For the 2025 International RoboCup competition, NEW major teams can apply for team fee waiver. A NEW team is defined as a team all of whose team members have never participated in an annual international RoboCup competition. The waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply any waiver of fees for team members.   The 2025 MSL Organizing and Technical Committees Fei Liu OC Chair, Middle Size League, RoboCup 2025  

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Updated rulebook RoboCup 2025
by Olthuis, Jorrit 31 Dec '24

31 Dec '24

Dear MSL teams, The updated rules for RoboCup 2025 have been published. They are available on the MSL website: https://msl.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Rulebook_MSL2025_v26.0.p… Best regards, MSL Technical Committee

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13th MSL Workshop - Detailed program - 24-25 January 2025 - Toulon University
by Valentin GIES 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

Dear MSL teams, As already announced, the 13th International MSL Workshop will be held on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th January 2025. The workshop location is : Universite de Toulon (Building E - 3rd floor) Avenue de l'Université 83130 La Garde (close to Toulon) France https://www.univ-tln.fr/Campus-de-La-Garde.html Schedule of the workshop is : * Friday 24th morning (starting at 9:00): o Traditional team presentations (20min + 10 minutes Q&A per team) * Friday 24th afternoon : o MSL Roadmap and how to realize it + Short / middle term evolutions + Long term evolutions for reaching 2050 objectives o Brazil 2025 : team participation / difficulties / suggestions for RoboCup Board * Saturday 25th morning (starting à 9:00): o Goalkeepers evolution. o Ensuring safety for MSL / playing with humans * Saturday 25th afternoon : o Quadrupeds / bipeds and MSL o How to get more teams in MSL ? o Additional topics to be defined The Workshop organisation would like to know which teams are coming and the number of participating team-members (for teams who didn't reply yet...). Friday and Saturday lunches and friday dinner will be organized by Toulon University. Please contact Margaux (preferable via email : walter.margaux2(a)gmail.com and contact(a)robotclubtoulon.com) to register your team for the MSL workshop. If the registration is received, a confirmation will be sent . With kind regards, The MSL workshop organisation Margaux, Maelig, Charline and Valentin -- Margaux Walter Mobile: +33 7 83 75 27 04 e-mail: walter.margaux2(a)gmail.com

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13th MSL Workshop : 24-25 January 2025 - Toulon University - France
by Valentin GIES 01 Dec '24

01 Dec '24

Dear MSL teams, The 13th International MSL Workshop will be held on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th January 2024. The workshop location is Toulon University - Building E, Avenue de l'Université, 83130 La Garde. It is close to Toulon, 20mn drive from Toulon/Hyeres Airport, 1h drive from Marseille airport and 1h20 drive from Nice airport. The main topics are: The traditional team presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A per team) The MSL Roadmap and how to realize it Ensuring safety for MSL Other topics (some in parallel sessions) will be decided by the TC/EC comittees. The Workshop organisation would like to know which teams are coming and the number of participating team-members. Please contact Margaux (preferable via email : walter.margaux2(a)gmail.com and contact(a)robotclubtoulon.com) to register your team for the MSL workshop. If the registration is received, a confirmation will be sent . With kind regards, The MSL workshop organisation Margaux, Maelig, Charline and Valentin -- Margaux Walter Mobile: +33 7 83 75 27 04 e-mail: walter.margaux2(a)gmail.com

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MSL Rule and Roadmap Proposals
by Olthuis, Jorrit 12 Nov '24

12 Nov '24

Dear MSL teams, We would like to ask your ideas on 2 topics: * Every year, the Technical Committee updates the rulebook based on proposals by MSL community. Next to the normal open question for rule change proposals, we are looking for suggestion on how to improve human safety on the field. Teams are generally looking to becoming more powerful, therefore we want to ensure safety (e.g., for referees, human players, and during repairs). Please fill out this form before November 30: https://forms.gle/pTyWAHHNpdxZtJubA * The Executive Committee is looking at possible future directions for the MSL league. This involves evolving the rules over multiple years to move the league, step by step, into a (research) direction and to make steps towards the RoboCup wide goal of beating the human world champions in 2050. As a first step, we would like to hear from you. What direction(s) do you believe the MSL league should be going in the next 5 year? What should be the major new developments in MSL? Later, at the MSL workshop in Toulon in January, we will continue the discussion about this. Please submit your ideas through this online form: https://forms.gle/8aA5nYLb22TV7qcD8. Best regards, MSL Technical Committee

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RoboCup Early Visa Invitation Letters
by 2024＠robocup.org 21 Jan '24

21 Jan '24

Dear RoboCuppers, We are very much looking forward to inviting all of you to Eindhoven, The Netherlands for RoboCup 2024! To allow more teams to join RoboCup 2024, we offer early visa invitation letters. Participants that require a visa to join RoboCup in The Netherlands may apply for an early visa invitation letter. This letter allows for making an earlier appointment at an embassy to request a visa, rather than only after completing registration. There are some constraints on who can receive a visa invitation letter. You can find the details, as well as the request form, on the RoboCup 2024 website: https://2024.robocup.org/?page_id=2998 We hope to see you at RoboCup 2024! Best regards, RoboCup 2024 Organisation 2024(a)robocup.org <mailto:2024@robocup.org>

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Call for Participation: RoboCup2024 Middle Size League
by 刘斐 04 Jan '24

04 Jan '24

Call for Participation  RoboCup 2024 Middle Size League July 15 to 22, 2024 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) https://2024.robocup.org We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2024 RoboCup MSL World Championships. If you are interested to participate, please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2024 MSL competitions.  1)    Pre-registration  For the pre-registration please send an e-mail to rc-msl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org and liufei(a)caa.org.cn containing the following data: ·   Team name ·   URL of the team’s home page ·   Name of the team leader ·   E-mail address of team or team leader ·   Affiliation ·   Country ·   Link to the qualification materials  Please send more information about teams to introduce them better on MSL website(https://msl.robocup.org/teams). Sending following information would be optional: ·   Logo ·   Profile (Describe team with at most 150 words). ·   Most research topics (up to 6 topics)   2)    Qualification materials  Please note that, according to the rules, the evaluation of some parts of the qualification materials will contribute to the scientific challenge final result.  By the time of pre-registration, please have ready the following qualification materials:  a)    A Team Description Paper describing the most innovative contributions or scientific results (the TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). b)    A list of 5 scientiﬁc papers published during the last 5 years of the team which are related to RoboCup. Abstracts of these papers and a complete reference to each paper must also be submitted. When more papers are submitted, only the first 5 will be considered. c)    A list of results and awards obtained by the team in the last 3 years. d)    A video showing the capabilities of the team’s robots (the maximum duration of the video is 60 seconds; if the submitted video is longer than 60 seconds, only the first 60 seconds will be considered for evaluation). e)    A list of contributions of the team to the RoboCup MSL community. f)     Declaration if the team will be part of a mixed team. g)    Declaration if the team requires 802.11b access-point. h)    A mechanical and electrical description together with a software flow chart. i)   List of MAC Addresses used by the team, with explicit indication of those that will be used for wireless communication and their type: robots or development computers. All other MAC addresses will be blocked. (Modifications are allowed before the competition, no later than July 8, 2024.) j)    List of size and weight of the robots (If there are many different robots, please give the data for each type separately. Modifications are allowed before the competition, no later than July 8, 2024.): Dimensions: Length*Width*Height(cm) Weight: (kg)  For being able to participate in the RoboCup competition, teams have to ensure, at least, the minimum cumulative following criteria: ·   Demonstrate in the video that they are able to perform the basic actions to be able to play. ·   Produce a Team Description Paper (TDP) according to the above definition. ·   Obtain a minimum of 50 points in the overall qualification procedure.  The details regarding the qualification materials are contained in the rules and regulations document available at https://msl.robocup.org. Please read it thoroughly.  The qualification materials should be placed in a dedicated page of the team's web page. Please include the link to the qualification materials in the pre-registration information. 3)    Important dates  ·   Deadline for pre-registration and submission of the qualification materials: February 29, 2024 ·   Announcement of qualified teams: March 15, 2024  4)    Rules  The rules and regulations for the RoboCup 2024 Middle Size League had been published at: https://msl.robocup.org/rules  The updated rules and regulations had been released by December 31, 2023   5)    Publication  Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams the qualification materials of the qualified teams will be made publicly available. Therefore, teams applying for participation, grant the right of publication of their qualification materials to the MSL league(MAC addresses are an exception and should remain private).   6)    Plagiarism  Plagiarism, loosely the unattributed use of other peoples' words, code and ideas (see “https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism.html” for a more detailed description) is not tolerated in the RoboCup community.  The teams and team members that plagiarize other peoples' work and present it as their own will be disqualified. For a first offense, the team and team members will be banned from RoboCup competition for two years (usually the current and next year). Harsher penalties will be applied to repeat offenders or extremely serious cases of plagiarism. A team may be disqualified at any time for plagiarism, even after the competition has started. RoboCup will not reimburse teams for any expenses related to their disqualification.   7)   Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams  For the 2024 International RoboCup competition, NEW major teams can apply for team fee waiver. A NEW team is defined as a team all of whose team members have never participated in an annual international RoboCup competition. The waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply any waiver of fees for team members.   The 2024 MSL Organizing and Technical Committees Fei Liu OC Chair, Middle Size League, RoboCup 2024  

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12th MSL Workshop - request for registration
by Jurge van Eijck 21 Dec '23

21 Dec '23

Dear MSL teams, The 12th International MSL Workshop will be held on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th January 2024. The workshop location is Strand 365 <https://strand365.nl/en/location/> Veldhoven (next to Einhoven). The main topics are: - The traditional team presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A per team) - The MSL Roadmap and how to realize it - Artificial Intelligence for MSL Other topics (some in parallel sessions) would included: - Mixed Team / Playing with Humans - MSL Reference Architecture - Maintenance and licensing of MSL GitHub Repositories The Workshop organisation would like to know which teams are coming and the number of participating team-members. Please contact me (preferable via email) to *register your team *for the MSL workshop. If the registration is received, a confirmation will be sent . With kind regards, The MSL workshop organisation Ton, Lex, Lekhaj & Jurge

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12th International MSL Workshop
by Jurge van Eijck 09 Nov '23

09 Nov '23

Hello everyone, The Falcons and Robotsports are organizing the 12th international MSL workshop. The workshop will be in Eindhoven (the Netherlands) on Friday 19th January and Saturday 20th January 2024. Time schedule, exact location will follow soon. On behalf of Robotsports and the Falcons, Jurge, Lekhaj, Lex & Ton

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MSL rule proposals
by Olthuis, Jorrit 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Dear MSL teams, On behalf of the Technical Committee I would like to ask you for suggestions for new/improved rules for 2024. For these suggestions we are at least looking for: * A description of your proposed change/addition. * In case of a change, which rule number should be changed. * A short motivation why this is an improvement to the league. We would like to ask you to submit the proposals by October 31st, such that the TC has time discuss the proposals and update the rulebook. Please send your proposals to rc-msl-tc(a)lists.robocup.org<mailto:rc-msl-tc@lists.robocup.org>. Best regards, The MSL Technical Committee

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MSL Rulebook Update - Ambition Challenge
by Olthuis, Jorrit 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Dear MSL teams, The Technical Committee has added the Ambition Challenge to the rulebook. This challenge uses a simplified set of rules and allows new teams to play matches at RoboCup, even before their robots satisfy the complete set of MSL rules. Version 24.1 of the rules, including the Ambition Challenge, can be found at https://msl.robocup.org/rules. Teams that wish to participate in this challenge at RoboCup 2023 are kindly requested to indicate their interest at the time of qualification. Teams that participate in the Ambition Challenge, and not in the regular competition, are only required to submit a Team Description Paper and Qualification Video in order to qualify. Best regards, On behalf of the MSL Technical Committee, Jorrit Olthuis

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MSL Rulebook 2023
by Olthuis, Jorrit 31 Dec '22

31 Dec '22

Dear MSL teams, The MSL rulebook has been updated for RoboCup 2023 in Bordeaux, France. The new rulebook can be found here: https://msl.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Rulebook_MSL2023_v24.0.p…. There is also an overview of the most important changes, this document is available here: https://msl.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/RuleChangesSummary_MSL20… Both documents will soon also be available on the MSL website. The Technical Committee is looking into the possibility of having a challenge for new teams with a reduced set of rules. If this challenge will take place at RoboCup 2023, it will be added to the rulebook in January of 2023. In case you have any questions or remarks, please direct them to the Technical Committee at rc-msl-tc(a)lists.robocup.org<mailto:rc-msl-tc@lists.robocup.org>. Best regards, On behalf of the MSL Technical Committee 2023, Jorrit Olthuis

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11th International RoboCup MSL planning and deadline
by Peter Teurlings 14 Nov '22

14 Nov '22

Dear MSL Community, As you might already know VDL Robot Sports and Tech United Eindhoven will host the 11th International RoboCup Middle Size League Workshop on December 16th and 17th. In the appendix you can find the time planning and the invitation. Please make sure you register before the deadline of the 26th of November. For more information about the workshop please do not hesitate to send an email to: - Peter Teurlings: p.teurlings(a)tue.nl - Gabriel Levy: g.b.a.levy(a)student.tue.nl We are looking forward to seeing you on the 16th and 17th on the University campus in Eindhoven. Kind regards, Peter Teurlings Tech United MSL

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Request for MSL rule proposals
by Jorrit Olthuis 30 Oct '22

30 Oct '22

Dear MSL teams, On behalf of the Technical Committee I would like to ask you for suggestions for new/improved rules for 2023. For these suggestions we are at least looking for: * A description of your proposed change/addition. * In case of a change, which rule number should be changed. * A short motivation why this is an improvement to the league. We would like to ask you to submit the proposals by October 31st, such that the TC has time discuss the proposals and update the rulebook. Please send your proposals to rc-msl-tc(a)lists.robocup.org. Best regards, On behalf of the MSL Technical Committee, Jorrit Olthuis

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11th International RoboCup MSL Workshop, Open Invitation
by Peter Teurlings 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

Dear MSL Community, VDL Robot Sports and Tech United Eindhoven will host the 11th International RoboCup Middle Size League Workshop. This year the workshop will take place in Eindhoven, on December 16th and 17th. The theme of the workshop is “MSL: The Next Decade” and will focus on the future direction and continuous development of the league, but also to share knowledge among existing and starting teams. The schedule of the workshop will be presented in the upcoming weeks. All MSL teams are invited, Registration is done by sending an email to techunited(a)tue.nl. For more information about the workshop please do not hesitate to send an email to: - Peter Teurlings: p.teurlings(a)tue.nl - Gabriel Levy: g.b.a.levy(a)student.tue.nl Kind regards, Peter Teurlings Tech United MSL

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Middle Size League, RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2022: Call for Participation
by 刘斐 14 Oct '22

14 Oct '22

Dear RoboCuppers, You are welcome to participate in the RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2022 (RCAP 2022). ============== Call for Participation =============== RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2022 (RCAP 2022) October – November   https://2022.robocupap.org/   Due to the current situation linked to Covid, RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP) 2022 PyeongChang has been postponed to 2023 (Press Release: https://robocupap.org/news/postponement-of-robocup-asia-pacif…). This year, RCAP 2022 will be organized in a distributed online-onsite hybrid format.   RoboCup Major Leagues: Online RoboCupJunior Leagues: Online CoSpace Leagues: Onsite and Online REGISTRATION:   https://2022.robocupap.org/registation/   REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Deadline  for team registration has been extended to 30 October 2022. REGISTRATION FEES: The registration fee for teams to participate in virtual competitions: o Major Team Registration Fee: Waived o Major Staff/Students: USD60/person o Junior Team Registration Fee: Waived o Junior Students/Mentors: USD40/person   TRAVEL ADVISORY FOR ONSITE PARTICIPANTS RCAP 2022 CoSpace Leagues (Finals) will be held at Singapore Sands Expo & Convention in conjunction with EDUtech Asia 2022, 9-10 November 2022. Participants who travel to Singapore to take part in RCAP 2022 CoSpace Leagues Finals (onsite) will need to abide by all COVID-19 measures and precautions implemented by local authorities. Please refer to the Advisory on COVID-19 for Visitors and Tourism Businesses by Singapore Tourism Board for the details. CONTACT: office(a)robocupap.org MSL will have 2 challenges for this year: Cooperation Challenge and Open Challenge. The detail rules about these 2 challenges had been published on the website of MSL RCAP2022: https://2022.robocupap.org/robocupsoccer-middle-size-league-… Please fill in the form below and complete the registration as soon as possible: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepReLfMJZywsQxp4q1uhHS970xZPoQO-l… We look forward to welcoming you to RCAP 2022! Best Regards, RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP) Office, RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2022 (RCAP 2022) Organizing Committee -- Fei Liu2023 OC Chair, RoboCup Middle Size League

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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Final Call for Satellite Events
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

* Final Call for Satellite Events * RoboCup International Symposium 2022 https://2022.robocup.org/symposium-call-for-satellite-events/ Submission of proposals: 3 April 2022 Notification to authors: 25 April 2022 Satellite Events: 17 or 18 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) =========================================================== We invite you to organize a satellite event for the 25th RoboCup International Symposium, which will be held on 17 July 2022, in conjunction with RoboCup 2022 (11 July to 17 July 2022) in a hybrid setting. The RoboCup symposium is an annual event in which innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence is presented. The Symposium Program Co-Chairs would like to facilitate the organization of satellite workshops, focus groups, roundtable discussions, and other events that are related to RoboCup itself or the general aim of the RoboCup Symposium. This includes league-specific discussions about rules and/or roadmaps, shared infrastructure projects between leagues, as well as scientific workshops focusing on a particular research topic, among others. League committee members, as well as teams or individuals from RoboCup leagues participating in the Symposium, are invited to submit their proposals. The organizers of a satellite event are free to propose events between 2 and 8 hours in length to be held during or a day after the RoboCup Symposium (17 or 18 July) in a fully virtual, hybrid, or fully local format. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of satellite events: 3 April 2022 Notification to authors: 25 April 2022 Satellite Events: 17 or 18 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ========================== Proposals will be evaluated by the Symposium Program Co-Chairs based on their thematic relevance to the RoboCup Symposium as well as their proposed schedule and required resources. Satellite events will not be included in the RoboCup Symposium proceedings. Proposals should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines [0] and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system [1]. Please follow the LaTeX template created by us by either downloading the template file [2] or by creating a private copy of this Overleaf template [3]. Submissions are limited to a 4-page extended abstract, excluding references. Each submission must include the following sections: * Name of the satellite event * A description of the format (e.g., discussion group, workshop, tutorial, invited talks, ...) and intended length of the event * Prefered date and time of the event (17 or 18; morning or afternoon, or the whole day [no lunch will be provided unless it’s on the 17th]) * A description of the content and aim of the satellite event * Names and contacts of all members of the organizing committee/group with one clearly marked person as the corresponding member of the organizing committee * The intended audience and the number of participants expected * Any resources required to organize the workshop After the acceptance of their proposal, organizers are expected to create a short description of their event as well as a website providing further information which will both be linked from the RoboCup symposium page on the RoboCup 2022 website. Organizers of accepted proposals for satellite events will receive a location for their event as well as other required resources (e.g., a projector), if possible. Apart from this, the organizers are responsible for organizing their event independent of the RoboCup Symposium. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ================== Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, University of Potsdam, Germany Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal Thanapat Wanichanon, Mahidol University, Thailand Amy Eguchi, University of California San Diego, USA CONTACT ======= robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org [0] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… [1] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022 [2] https://2022.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Symposium-Satellite-Eve… [3] https://de.overleaf.com/read/gqspxdtvpwsn

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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Call for Satellite Events
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

* Call for Satellite Events * RoboCup International Symposium 2022 https://2022.robocup.org/symposium-call-for-satellite-events/ Submission of proposals: 3 April 2022 Notification to authors: 25 April 2022 Satellite Events: 17 or 18 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) =========================================================== We invite you to organize a satellite event for the 25th RoboCup International Symposium, which will be held on 17 July 2022, in conjunction with RoboCup 2022 (11 July to 17 July 2022) in a hybrid setting. The RoboCup symposium is an annual event in which innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence is presented. The Symposium Program Co-Chairs would like to facilitate the organization of satellite workshops, focus groups, roundtable discussions, and other events that are related to RoboCup itself or the general aim of the RoboCup Symposium. This includes league-specific discussions about rules and/or roadmaps, shared infrastructure projects between leagues, as well as scientific workshops focusing on a particular research topic, among others. League committee members, as well as teams or individuals from RoboCup leagues participating in the Symposium, are invited to submit their proposals. The organizers of a satellite event are free to propose events between 2 and 8 hours in length to be held during or a day after the RoboCup Symposium (17 or 18 July) in a fully virtual, hybrid, or fully local format. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of satellite events: 3 April 2022 Notification to authors: 25 April 2022 Satellite Events: 17 or 18 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ========================== Proposals will be evaluated by the Symposium Program Co-Chairs based on their thematic relevance to the RoboCup Symposium as well as their proposed schedule and required resources. Satellite events will not be included in the RoboCup Symposium proceedings. Proposals should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines [0] and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system [1]. Please follow the LaTeX template created by us by either downloading the template file [2] or by creating a private copy of this Overleaf template [3]. Submissions are limited to a 4-page extended abstract, excluding references. Each submission must include the following sections: * Name of the satellite event * A description of the format (e.g., discussion group, workshop, tutorial, invited talks, ...) and intended length of the event * Prefered date and time of the event (17 or 18; morning or afternoon, or the whole day [no lunch will be provided unless it’s on the 17th]) * A description of the content and aim of the satellite event * Names and contacts of all members of the organizing committee/group with one clearly marked person as the corresponding member of the organizing committee * The intended audience and the number of participants expected * Any resources required to organize the workshop After the acceptance of their proposal, organizers are expected to create a short description of their event as well as a website providing further information which will both be linked from the RoboCup symposium page on the RoboCup 2022 website. Organizers of accepted proposals for satellite events will receive a location for their event as well as other required resources (e.g., a projector), if possible. Apart from this, the organizers are responsible for organizing their event independent of the RoboCup Symposium. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ================== Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, University of Potsdam, Germany Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal Thanapat Wanichanon, Mahidol University, Thailand Amy Eguchi, University of California San Diego, USA CONTACT ======= robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org [0] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… [1] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022 [2] https://2022.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Symposium-Satellite-Eve… [3] https://de.overleaf.com/read/gqspxdtvpwsn

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Fw:Pre-Robotics: MSL (Saturday January 29, 2022 7-8pm BKK)
by 刘斐 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

Hi everyone, As we are preparing for the Pre-robocup event, Jan 27-29, 2022, let me summarize the event for everyone. The pre-robocup event is mainly for participating teams to  recap any new changes to the league (if any). However, we can use this opportunity to promote each league to the general public as well. So if we can help to send the following posters and schedule to anyone/team you think will be interested. For the MSL, we have the final schedule as follows: 7:00pm - 7:05pm  Introducing the speakers by Ler Gullayanon 7:05pm - 7:25pm Introduction to the MSL league by Fei Liu 7:25pm - 7:40pm Rules and Regulations by Ehsan Marjani  7:40pm - 7:55pm Preparing for Middle Size League Challengev by Jorrit Olthuis 7:55pm - 8:00pm Q&A  Please let me know if you have any questions. Best Regards, Ler Rutchanee Gullayanon, Ph.D. Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang 1 Soi Chalongkrung 1, Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand 10520 Mobile: +66 9 1805 5081 email: rutchanee.gu(a)kmitl.ac.th

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Participation Survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand
by 刘斐 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

Dear All, We would hereby invite you to complete the participation survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. This survey aims to explore the possible challenges and requirements of participants in the event, which will be held in 11-17 July 2022 at Bangkok, Thailand. https://forms.gle/FKJMMRaqWK6rSPLq9 According to the covid-19 pandemic situation, Thailand is gearing up for a return to normalcy by easing some travel restrictions and quarantine requirements and allowing normal tourists to enter the country. In addition, the government has now introduced sandbox programs allowing fully vaccinated travelers from 63 low-risk countries to enter the country without quarantine. For more specific information on situation and arrival requirements, please kindly visit our website on https://2022.robocup.org/. We appreciate the time you have taken to complete the participation survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. We are hoping and looking forward to seeing you at the event. Please finish the survey before January 31. RoboCup 2022 Organizing Team Fei Liu OC Chair, Middle Size League, RoboCup 2022  

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Participation Survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand
by 刘斐 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

Dear All, We would hereby invite you to complete the participation survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. This survey aims to explore the possible challenges and requirements of participants in the event, which will be held in 11-17 July 2022 at Bangkok, Thailand. According to the covid-19 pandemic situation, Thailand is gearing up for a return to normalcy by easing some travel restrictions and quarantine requirements and allowing normal tourists to enter the country. In addition, the government has now introduced sandbox programs allowing fully vaccinated travelers from 63 low-risk countries to enter the country without quarantine. For more specific information on situation and arrival requirements, please kindly visit our website on https://2022.robocup.org/. We appreciate the time you have taken to complete the participation survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. We are hoping and looking forward to seeing you at the event. Please finish the survey before January 31. RoboCup 2022 Organizing Team Fei Liu OC Chair, Middle Size League, RoboCup 2022  

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Call for Participation: RoboCup 2022 Middle Size League
by 刘斐 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Call for Participation   RoboCup 2022 Middle Size League July 11 to 17, 2022 (Bangkok, Thailand) https://2022.robocup.org We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2022 RoboCup MSL World Championships. If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2022  MSL competitions.  1) Pre-registration  For the pre-registration please send an e-mail to rc-msl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org and liufei(a)caa.org.cn containing the following data: · team name · URL of the team’s home page · name of the team leader · e-mail address of team or team leader · affiliation · country · link to the qualification materials  Please send more information about teams to introduce them better on MSL website(https://msl.robocup.org/teams). Sending following information would be optional: · logo · profile (Describe team with at most 150 words). · most research topics (up to 6 topics)  2) Qualification materials  Please note that, according to the rules, the evaluation of some parts of the qualification materials will contribute to the scientific challenge final result.  By the time of pre-registration, please have ready the following qualification materials:  a) A Team Description Paper describing the most innovative contributions or scientific results (the TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) b) A list of 5 scientiﬁc papers published during the last 5 years of the team which are related to RoboCup. Abstracts of these papers and a complete reference to each paper must also be submitted. When more papers are submitted, only the first 5 will be considered; c) A list of results and awards obtained by the team in the last 3 years; d) A video showing the capabilities of the team’s robots (the maximum duration of the video is 60 seconds; if the submitted video is longer than 60 seconds, only the first 60 seconds will be considered for evaluation); e) A list of contributions of the team to the RoboCup MSL community. f) Declaration if the team will be part of a mixed team. g) Declaration if the team requires 802.11b access-point. h) A mechanical and electrical description together with a software flow chart (please include size and weight of the robots); i) List of MAC Addresses used by the team, with explicit indication of those that will be used for wireless communication and their type: robots or development computers. All other MAC addresses will be blocked.  The details regarding the qualification materials are contained in the rules and regulations document available at https://msl.robocup.org. Please read it thoroughly.  The qualification materials should be placed in a dedicated page of the team's web page. Please include the link to the qualification materials in the pre-registration information. 3) Important dates  · Deadline for pre-registration and submission of the qualification materials: March 21, 2022 · Announcement of qualified teams: March 28, 2022  4) Rules  The rules and regulations for the RoboCup 2022 Middle Size League had been published at: https://msl.robocup.org/rules   The updated rules and regulations had been released by December 31, 2021  5) Publication  Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams the qualification materials of the qualified teams will be made publicly available. Therefore, teams applying for participation, grant the right of publication of their qualification materials to the MSL league(MAC addresses are an exception and should remain private).  6) Plagiarism  Plagiarism, loosely the unattributed use of other peoples' words, code and ideas (see “http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/plagiarism_FAQ.html” for a more detailed description) is not tolerated in the RoboCup community.  The teams and team members that plagiarize other peoples' work and present it as their own will be disqualified. For a first offense, the team and team members will be banned from RoboCup competition for two years (usually the current and next year). Harsher penalties will be applied to repeat offenders or extremely serious cases of plagiarism. A team may be disqualified at any time for plagiarism, even after the competition has started. RoboCup will not reimburse teams for any expenses related to their disqualification.  7) Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams  For the 2022 International RoboCup competition, NEW major teams can apply for team fee waiver. A NEW team is defined as a team all of whose team members have never participated in an annual international RoboCup competition. The waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply any waiver of fees for team members.  The 2022 MSL Organizing and Technical Committees

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Interest in RoboCup tournament 2022 organized by Tech United?
by Tech United 09 Nov '21

09 Nov '21

Dear MSL and @Home teams, We as Tech United are thinking about organizing a RoboCup tournament in October or November in 2022 in the Netherlands. We would very much appreciate your opinion on participating in such a tournament! If there would be enough teams that would like to participate, we would like to realize this in collaboration with Vanderlande. I am looking forward to your replies, and thanks in advance. With kind regards, Office Tech United, Isabelle Franklin [cid:image001.png@01D7D551.D4EDF1F0] Isabelle Franklin Office Manager Tech United Eindhoven De Wielen 1, 5612 AZ Postbus 513 5600 MB Eindhoven M 06 45252003 E techunited(a)tue.nl<mailto:techunited@tue.nl> I www.techunited.nl<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techun…>

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Request for MSL rule proposals
by Olthuis, Jorrit 01 Nov '21

01 Nov '21

Dear MSL teams, On behalf of the Technical Committee I would like to ask you for suggestions for new/improved rules. For these suggestions we are at least looking for: * A description of your proposed change/addition. * In case of a change, which rule number should be changed. * A motivation why the league should make this change. We would like to ask you to submit the proposals by November 15, such that the TC has time discuss the proposals and update the rulebook. Best regards, On behalf of the MSL Technical Committee, Jorrit Olthuis

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CFP: RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021)
by Asad Norouzi 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

*Apologies for duplicate messages* ============== Call for Participation =============== *RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021)* 25-29 November 2021 https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/participation.html RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 Aichi Japan (RCAP 2021) will be held at Aichi Sky Expo (Aichi International Convention & Exhibition Center), November 25-29, 2021. RCAP 2021 will be held in a hybrid ON-SITE and VIRTUAL format. Due to the current uncertainties of Covid-19, ON-SITE competitions will only open to participants from Japan. - ON-SITE Competitions: Participants from Japan. - VIRTUAL Competitions: Participants from all over the world. *LEAGUES:* Virtual Competitions are open to participants from all over the world, with most of the leagues of RoboCup 2021 Worldwide. For details of leagues, please refer to: https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/leagues.html *REGISTRATION:* All teams are required to pre-register through the online form: https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/registration.html *IMPORTANT DATES:* - Deadline for pre-registration (both online and virtual competitions): 30 September 2021 - Announcement of qualified teams: 14 October 2021 - Deadline for registration: 4 November 2021 *REGISTRATION FEES:* The registration fee is waived for all Japanese teams/members. The registration fee for teams to participate in virtual competitions (except teams from Japan): - Major Team Registration Fee: Waived - Major Staff/Students: USD60/person - Junior Team Registration Fee: Waived - Junior Students/Mentors: USD40/person *SYMPOSIUM:* https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/symposium.html *CONTACT:* For inquiries please contact us via the hereunder email addresses: - Aichi Local Organizing Committee (General Enquiries, On-site competitions): - rcap2021(a)intergroup.co.jp - RCAP Office (Registration fees and payments, Virtual competitions): - office(a)robocupap.org For more information please visit our official website at https://2021 .robocupap.org/eng/index.html We look forward to welcoming you to RCAP 2021 Aichi Japan! Best Regards, RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP) Office, RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021) Organizing Committee ____________________________________

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Migrating robocup-mid
by Pedro U Lima 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

Dear robocup-mid subscribers, RoboCup IT Team has been migrating the mailing lists which are still hosted at Georgia Tech, to a server at robocup.org, because the old mailing list is being blocked by an increasing number of servers. The new address of the list (to be used to send messages to all the subscribers) is robocup-mid(a)lists.robocup.org The old address is not working anymore, therefore, please update the list address with the new one and remove the old one. Please note that the old passwords are not usable anymore. In order to get your password please enter your email address on https://lists.robocup.org/options/robocup-mid and then click on the remind button. You will receive an email with your password immediately. In addition, you can share the list link via https://lists.robocup.org/listinfo/robocup-mid Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Best regards, Pedro U. Lima (on behalf of RoboCup IT team)

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