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Participation to the Workshop on AI and Simulation for Natural Disaster Management
by RoboCup Rescue Simulation 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

[Apologies for the cross-posting] Dear, We invite you to participate in the 2021 Workshop on AI and Simulation for Natural Disaster Management that will be held Online on *July 1st, 2021*. The participation is *free of charge*. You can find further information about the Workshop Programme and instructions to connect to the workshop at https://rescuesim.robocup.org/2021-workshop/2021-workshop-schedule/. *IMPORTANT:* Notice that the scheduled time is in UTC time standard (e.g., Japan UTC+9, Iran UTC+4.5, Netherlands UTC+2, Ireland UTC+1, Brazil UTC-3). Please let us know if you have any questions. Kind Regards, RoboCup Rescue Simulation League

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RoboCup Major awards ceremony today
by Arnoud Visser 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

At the main stage of the Underline website today: Between noon and 2pm UTC, there will be the RoboCup Junior awards ceremony (noon), the Handover ceremony for everyone with a preview of RoboCup 2022 (12:45), and the RoboCup Major awards ceremony (1:15). All participants are strongly encouraged to attend - whether or not you won an award!

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Place to upload pictures
by Arnoud Visser 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

If you have a good picture with an impression of this year competition, you could upload them to: https://cloud.robocup.org/s/9xQ8zNcsG8WeKfy Regards, Arnoud

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RoboCup Rescue Victim Dataset
by Arnoud Visser 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

Concerning our discussion of today on realistic victims. The Real Robot League has published this dataset: RoboCup Rescue Victim Dataset. Peter Lorenz, Gerald Steinbauer, 2018. Annotated images from RoboCup rescue. https://osf.io/dwsnm/ - See more at: https://robocup.org/robocup_datasets#sthash.DjrmNE0S.dpuf Regards, Arnoud

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Open positions in the League
by Arnoud Visser 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

Dear RoboCup Rescuers, This year, we have open positions for a 1 new OC, 1 TC member and 1 EC member for the Virtual Robot competition inside RoboCup Rescue Simulation League. We would like to invite anyone interested in becoming EC, TC or OC to send me an email. We will have the election Saturday morning in our Team Leaders' Meeting. Thank you, Arnoud Visser

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Keynote speakers symposium
by Arnoud Visser 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

Dear all, as you may have seen, is the schedule of keynote speakers now distributed over several days. I personally can recomment the keynote of Prof. Dieter Fox on Wednesday June 23 (14:00-15:00 UTC) https://2021.robocup.org/symposium [https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/JvTZvdRmYXidXpq15HGIOWlmBxoY1yKqR5CX0_Oam…]<https://2021.robocup.org/symposium> RoboCup 2021 - Symposium<https://2021.robocup.org/symposium> Overview The 24th RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction with RoboCup 2021 in a purely online setting, from 22 June to 28 June 2021. The symposium will feature contributed papers reporting innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial 2021.robocup.org On Friday, one of the keynote speakers of the previous RoboCup symposium gives a keynote on another venue (Intelligent Autonomous Systems conference). If you missed Peter Corke presentation on the RoboCup 2019, I can recomment also his presentation (see the attached public program) on Friday June 25 (5:00-5:40 UTC) https://www.ias-16.com/#plenary Finally, next week there will also be the workshop organized by our league (2021 Workshop on AI and Simulation for Natural Disaster Management). This workshop will on Thursday July 1st (9:00-12:00 UTC): https://rescuesim.robocup.org/2021-workshop/2021-workshop-schedule/ Hope to see you all there! Regards, Arnoud Visser

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