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Official Videos – RCAP Beijing Masters 2025 Humanoid League 5V5 and 3Vs Finals
by Office RoboCupAP 26 Aug '25

26 Aug '25

Dear RoboCuppers, Co-organized by the Beijing Municipal Government and the RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP) Confederation, the RCAP Beijing Masters – Humanoid League 3V3 and 5V5 was successfully held in conjunction with the World Humanoid Robot Games (WHRG 2025) at the Beijing National Speed Skating Oval (Ice Ribbon) from 14–17 August 2025. The World Humanoid Robot Games featured 26 competition categories, of which RoboCup/RCAP organized the RCAP Beijing Masters events: RoboCup HL AdultSize 3V3 and RCAP HL TeenSize 5V5. A total of 47 RoboCup teams from 14 countries participated in the RCAP Beijing Masters. We sincerely thank the RoboCup community for its strong support and enthusiastic participation. We are delighted to share with you the official videos of the 3V3 and 5V5 finals. We hope you enjoy watching these exciting matches: 1. RCAP Beijing Masters – RCAP HL TeenSize 5V5 Finals Watch here: https://youtu.be/CvqQvNeKfrM • Team BLUE: HTWK Robots + Nao Devils (Germany) • Team RED: Hephaestus (China) 2. RCAP Beijing Masters – RoboCup HL AdultSize 3V3 Finals Watch here: https://youtu.be/UBpnJ0VKado • Team BLUE: Sweaty (Germany) • Team RED: CAU Mountain & Sea (China) For full competition results, please visit: bjm2025.robocupap.org/results Please like, share, and subscribe for more highlights from RoboCup and RCAP events. With best regards, Organizing Committee RCAP Beijing Masters 2025

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Robotics Developer Masterclass – Final Enrollment for 2025 Batch 8
by Sonia W 19 Aug '25

19 Aug '25

Greetings all, This is a kind reminder that registration for the Robotics Developer Masterclass <https://www.theconstruct.ai/robotics-developer/?utm_source=robocup_worldwid…> <https://www.theconstruct.ai/robotics-developer/?utm_source=robocup_worldwid…>Batch 8 2025 is coming to a close on Aug 31, 2025. - Name: Robotics Developer Masterclass - Class: Batch 8 - Program Start Date: September 1st, 2025 - Registration link: roboticsdeveloper.ai <https://www.theconstruct.ai/robotics-developer/?utm_source=robocup_worldwid…> - Program Fee: €999/month To support your learning journey, we are providing a special coupon *2F583131*: receive €150 off each month for 6 months, for a total of *€900* in savings. The coupon is valid only if used by *August 30, 2025*. The Robotics Developer Masterclass is a comprehensive online learning program designed to provide individuals starting from zero with the necessary skills and knowledge to pursue a career in robotics development. Below are some key details of the Masterclass: *Program Highlights:* - 6-Month Training Period: Divided into 6 phases, each focusing on developing specific, in-demand robotics skills through hands-on projects. - 3-Month Internship: Gain real-world experience with leading robotics companies, applying your skills in industry settings. - 3-Month Job Hunting Program: Receive step-by-step guidance, from resume building to interview preparation, to help you land your new career in robotics. - Hands-on Learning: Engage with both simulated and real robots to develop practical, actionable robotics skills. - Comprehensive Curriculum: Covers everything from fundamental programming techniques to advanced planning and control algorithms. - Robotics Portfolio: Showcase your work through a professional online portfolio, integrating all projects and code for potential employers to view. - LinkedIn Certificate: Earn a certificate to enhance your professional profile and demonstrate your newly acquired robotics expertise. *What you will learn:* - ROS1 and ROS 2 - C++ for Robotics - Python for Robotics - Linux for Robotics - Math for Robotics - Collaborative Software Development with Git - Robot Modeling with URDF - Robot Frame Transformations with TF ROS 2 - Create robot simulations with Gazebo (Ignition) - Robot Navigation with ROS 2 (Nav2) - Robot Perception - Object Manipulation - Build Robot Controllers (ros2_control) - Kinematics of Mobile Robots and Arm Robots - Robot Dynamics - Kalman Filters - Path Planning Algorithms - Program web interfaces for Robot Ap - Docker for Robotics - Automate Development Tasks with Jenkins - Continuous Integration (CI) - Design, Develop, and Present, from Zero, a Complete Robotics Project For more details, please check roboticsdeveloper.ai <https://www.theconstruct.ai/robotics-developer/?utm_source=robocup_worldwid…> . If you have any questions or require further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us at info(a)theconstruct.ai. -- [image: Logo] <https://www.theconstruct.ai/> [image: Logo] Sonia Wang Robotics Career Success Advisor | The Construct E: rjun(a)theconstruct.ai | theconstruct.ai [image: Banner] <https://www.theconstruct.ai/robotics-developer/?utm_source=email&utm_medium…>

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[Jobs] Research Software Engineer at University of Edinburgh
by Ram Ramamoorthy 14 Aug '25

14 Aug '25

We are hiring a Research Software Engineer for the recently established Centre for AI in Assistive Autonomy (https://assistive-autonomy.ed.ac.uk/) within the School of Informatics in the University of Edinburgh. The primary purpose of this role is to develop, deploy, and maintain software stacks associated with robotic systems such as autonomous vehicles and robotic manipulation platforms. This includes sensor processing and controller interfacing to higher level modules for perception, planning and control, human-machine interfacing, testing and data visualisation. The Centre for AI for Assistive Autonomy is a mission-driven research centre at the University of Edinburgh, dedicated to advancing interactive AI to enable new assistive technologies for mobility and healthcare We believe intelligent autonomy must be human-centred – grounded in predictive models of individual capability, shaped by adaptive interaction, and guided by shared reasoning to achieve true collaboration. To achieve this, we combine foundational science with real-world applications to build intelligent systems that extend human capabilities -providing safe ethical, and adaptive assistance. For more details and to apply, please see: https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1… The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Call for AAAI-26 Bridge Program Proposals
by Hadi Hosseini 12 Aug '25

12 Aug '25

📢 💥 *Call for AAAI-26 Bridge Program Proposals (Deadline Extended to August 29)* 💥 📢 The AAAI-26 Program Committee invites proposals for the* Bridge Program* of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26) held in Singapore from January 20-21, 2026. *Call details:* https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-26/bridge-program-call/ <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faaai.org%…> 🤔 *What are bridges?* AAAI has incubated numerous AI sub-disciplines and conferences and has nurtured for decades the cohesion of AI. New communities often emerge when two or more disciplines come together in order to explore new opportunities and perspectives; today, both are plentiful. The purpose of the AAAI Bridges Program is to tap into this new source of innovation by cultivating sustained collaboration between two or more communities directed towards a common goal. Our interpretation of bridge is broad and encompasses disciplines both within and outside of AI. Hence, the communities that the AAAI Bridges Program brings together could be distinct subfields of AI, such as planning and learning, or different disciplines that contribute to and benefit from AI, such as AI and the humanities. Examples of accepted Bridges from AAAI-25 can be found here https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-25/aaai-25-bridge-list/ <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faaai.org%…> *Proposal Deadline Extension:* August 29, 2025 @ 11:59pm AoE Inquiries concerning Bridge format and submission process may be directed to aaai26bpchairs(a)aaai.org -- Hadi Hosseini, Ph.D. Associate Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology Associate Director, Center for AI Foundations and Engineered Systems (CAFE) Director, FAIR Lab Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA https://faculty.ist.psu.edu/hadi/

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[RCAP 2025 @ Abu Dhabi, UAE from 10-15 Nov 2025] Call for Participation
by Office RoboCupAP 08 Aug '25

08 Aug '25

====== RCAP 2025 Call for Participation ========== *RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2025 (RCAP 2025)* Location: ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi <https://www.adnec.ae/en/discover-adnec/about-adnec> , Abu Dhabi, UAE Dates: 10 - 15 November 2025 Website: https://2025.robocupap.org/ Pre-Registration: https://2025.robocupap.org/registration/ Dear RoboCuppers, Mark your calendars for RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2025 (RCAP 2025). The RCAP 2025 will be held in ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi <https://www.adnec.ae/en/discover-adnec/about-adnec>, UAE from 10 - 15 November 2025. 1. Important Dates <https://2025.robocupap.org/important-dates/> - 1 July – 18 August 2025: Pre-Registration - 25 August 2025: Announcement of qualified teams - 14 September 2025: Final submission and payment deadline - 15 September – 11 November 2025: Late registration and payment. During this period, no team registration is allowed. - 29 September 2025: Team presentation videos (For RCAP Influencer Award) submission deadline. - 10 October 2025: Team presentation videos to be uploaded to RCAP Academy Official YouTube channel. - 10 – 13 November 2025: Team Setup and competition. - 14 November 2025: Finals and Award Ceremony - 15 November 2025: Symposium 2. Registration <https://2025.robocupap.org/registration/> - Begin your team's pre-registration on the following page: https://2025.robocupap.org/registration/ - Deadline for pre-registration: 18 August 2025. - Qualified teams will be notified on 25 August 2025. For inquiries related to registration, please contact the registration office at: registration(a)robocupap.org 3. Leagues to be organised at RCAP 2025 The following selected leagues will be hosted at RCAP 2025. *(1) Major Leagues* - RoboCupSoccer Humanoid League (KidSize, AdultSize) - RCAP Humanoid League (TeenSize) - RoboCupSoccer Standard Platform League (SPL) - RoboCupSoccer Middle Size League (MSL) - RoboCupSoccer Small Size League (SSL) - RoboCupSoccer Simulation League (2D) - RoboCupRescue Robot League - RoboCup@Home Open Platform League - RCAP Flying Robot Challenge (FRC) - RCAP CoSpace Auto-Delivery Challenge (University) - RCAP CoSpace Rescue Challenge (University) *(2) Junior Leagues* - RCJ Rescue Line (Primary, Secondary) - RCJ Rescue Maze (No age group) - RCJ Soccer Light-Weight (Primary, Secondary) - RCJ Soccer Open (No age group) - RCJ OnStage (Primary, Secondary) - RCAP CoSpace Autonomous Driving (U12, U19) - RCAP CoSpace Rescue (U12, U19) - RCAP CoSpace Autonomous Delivery (U19) *(3) RCAP Education * - RCAP Rescue Line, Entry (U12, U19) - RCAP Rescue Maze, Entry (U12, U19） - RCAP Soccer, Entry (U12, U19) - RCAP CoSpace Autonomous Driving, FirstSteps (U12) - RCAP CoSpace Rescue, FirstSteps (U12, U19) 4 Contact: registration(a)robocupap.org Stay updated with the latest announcements by visiting the RCAP 2025 official website: https://2025.robocupap.org/ You can also follow us on our social media page for regular updates: facebook.com/robocupap. We look forward to welcoming RoboCuppers to Abu Dhabi, UAE! Warm Regards, RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2025 (RCAP 2025) Organising Committee

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Call for Papers – Frontiers in Robotics and AI
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 07 Aug '25

07 Aug '25

Dear RoboCup Community, we are excited to invite you to submit to our upcoming Research Topic on **Leveraging Foundation Models for Interactive and Adaptive Robot Policy Learning** in Frontiers in Robotics and AI (FRAI) – a leading journal in the field of Robotics and AI. This topic is especially interesting for those among you that work in fields related to human-robot interaction, such as the @Home or Industrial Leagues. *Website* https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/71044/leveraging-foundation-mod… If you are interested in submitting, please klick "Participate in this topic" on the website and we will make sure to keep you updated and remind you to submit your research summary in time. *Description* This Research Topic aims to investigate the transformative potential of foundation models (FMs) for effective and adaptive robot-policy learning. We seek to highlight cutting-edge research and innovative applications of these models, showcasing novel adaptation algorithms and human-robot interaction and collaboration strategies. Our focus is on how robots, empowered by off-the-shelf and/or domain-adapted foundation models, can perceive, reason, interact, and make intelligent decisions in open-world domains. By enabling effective and generalizable perception, reasoning, and multi-turn human-robot interactions, we aim to allow robots to acquire knowledge actively from external environments and humans in a targeted manner, interpret and reason about information in relation to its multi-modal context, facilitating new policy adaptation, refining existing policies, and enhancing its task and motion planning ability. *Topics of Interest* We invite researchers and practitioners to submit original research, review articles, case studies, and technical notes that explore, but are NOT limited to, the following areas: - Applications of off-the-shelf Foundation Models for Robot Policy Learning - Embodied Multi-modal Vision and Language models - Efficient Domain Adaptation of Foundation Models for Policy Learning - Interactive Robot Policy Learning and Grounding - Human-robot Collaboration for Policy Learning - Policy Learning with Few-shot Demonstrations - Data Augmentation using Foundation Models - Interactive Reasoning and Task Planning with Foundation Models - Integrated Planning and Foundation Models - Applications and Fine-tuning of Foundation Models for Task and Motion Planning - Learning Safe Policy through Human-Robot Interaction - Trustworthy AI and AI Safety - In-context Learning (ICL) for Decision-Making - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Agents - Interactive Open-Vocabulary Robot Navigation and Manipulation - Policy Correction and Adaption through Human-robot Interaction - Policy Evaluation using Foundation Models - Applications and Fine-tuning of Foundation Models for Spoken Dialogue - Detecting and Adapting to Novelty in Open-world Environments *Important Dates* Manuscript Summary Submission Deadline: 30 September 2025 Manuscript Submission Deadline: 19 December 2025 *Submission* We are accepting the following article types: - Brief Research Report - Data Report - Editorial - General Commentary - Hypothesis and Theory - Methods - Mini Review - Opinion - Original Research - Perspective - Policy and Practice Reviews - Review - Systematic Review - Technology and Code *Topic Editors* - Sahisnu Mazumder, Javier Felip Leon and Ramesh Manuvinakurike (Intel Labs, USA) - Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) - Peng Hu and Hao Wang (Sichuan University, China) - Xin Yang (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China) - Hanbo Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) If you have any questions, do not hesitate to get in touch!

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meetings][CFP] Extended Deadline for participation at the software @HOME competion of the International Conference of Social Robotics in Naples 2025
by alexarossi＠gmail.com 28 Jul '25

28 Jul '25

Dear everyone, The submission's deadline for the ICSR competitions has been extended! The International Conference of Social Robotics 2025 will be held in Naples, Italy on 10-12 September. Below you can find the information and website for the conference and competition. Do not hesitate to get in touch if you need further information. best regards Alessandra See below the new updated CFP: Robot Software and Design Competition International Conference of Social Robotics - ICSR 10-12 September, Naples, Italy Competitions full description https://icsr2025.eu/competition/ Submission deadline 15th August 2025 Submission competition(a)icsr2025.eu The design and development of different types of robots, along with their intelligence and behaviours, have been steadily advancing. However, the robotics industry is entering new challenges due to the emergence of innovative and intelligent robots designed for a wide range of applications. In particular, we are increasingly seeing the need for embodied AI agents that are able to engage, support and assist people with different needs, preferences and expectations across various aspects of life. To this extent, we want to invite students, young researchers and more experienced groups to participate in robot software and design competitions that will match today’s increasing demands. There are three categories: * Robot design Competition, where teams of students, young researchers can show their design innovative ideas * @HOME Competition, where teams of young and more experienced researchers can apply advanced techniques for solving real-world problems in a competition format. * @HOME Hackathon, where teams of students and young researchers can develop social behaviours for HRI in a hackathon format. The @HOME Competition will be organised in two days: 1. A set-up day on 10/09 will serve for teams to test and adjust their solutions 2. A competition day on 11/09 where teams will show their robotic solutions. The Robot design Competition will take place on the last day - 12th September 2025. The Hackathon will be organised in two days: 1. A Workshop on 10/09 morning for illustrating the basic functionalities of the robot platforms and how to program them 2. Guided development on 10/09 afternoon with instructors following the teams in the development of some baseline tasks 3. Competition day on 11/09, where teams will develop their solutions and then show them for evaluation. For each category, we will select the winners. The winners of the challenges will be announced during the Closing Ceremony on September the 12th, 2025. Submissions Each submission should have a (maximum) 2-page summary. The template is flexible; however, it should include a concise abstract/synopsis of a maximum of 50 words, and enough details to judge the technical novelty of the proposed solution and/or innovative applications of robots. A single link of related video can be included. Video link is optional, and the maximum duration of the video should be 3 minutes. Please remember that it is not a scientific publication, but the description of a robotics innovation with potential to be developed as a project. Competition chairs, with the help from experts and reviewers, will select the finalists. Each finalist is supposed to register and present their entry at a dedicated session in the conference, which will be further evaluated by the Jury of peers. Email your submission to competition(a)icsr2025.eu <mailto:competition@icsr2025.eu>with the subject line including the competition you intend to participate into: * [ICSR 2025 Robot Design Competition] * [ICSR 2025 @HOME Competition] * [ICSR 2025 @HOME Hackathon] -- Alessandra Rossi, PhD Assistant Professor Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies - D.I.E.T.I. University of Naples Federico II Via Claudio, 21, 80125 - Naples, Italy w-page:https://alessandrarossi.net e-mail address:alessandra.rossi@unina.it e-mail address:a.rossi@herts.ac.uk X: @alhandra81

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Re-Imagining RoboCup
by Ubbo Visser 20 Jul '25

20 Jul '25

Dear RoboCuppers, RoboCup has been a uniquely enduring and inspiring force in robotics and AI since its inception. For almost three decades, it has grown through the self-motivation, passion, and remarkable  dedication of you, its participants. This spirit has made RoboCup the world’s largest and most influential robotics competition. Today, we stand at a pivotal moment. The field of robotics and AI is advancing at an unprecedented pace. The emergence of a new generation of robots, AI methods, and technologies is a unique  historical opportunity. RoboCup takes this opportunity to continue to lead. Therefore, we enact changes to the RoboCup international competitions, which is our window to the world. We unite all the advancements from all soccer leagues into one united umbrella focused on humanoid robot soccer. We push the state of the art in robotics and AI by introducing  humanoid robots for general-purpose applications, including the @home, work, and rescue leagues. Let’s write the next chapter of RoboCup together! On behalf of The RoboCup Board of Trustees, Ubbo Visser (President of The RoboCup Federation) ============================ Link to news on robocup.org <https://robocup.org/news/181> Details of Changes for the International RoboCup competition  Note: Existing leagues can continue at super-regionals, opens, and community-driven events. 1. Standard Platform League and Humanoid KidSize League  The SPL and Humanoid League KidSize divisions begin an immediate merger process aiming to form a unified league by 2026 (name to be decided). Teams from across all soccer leagues will be invited to join and shape this process.  2. Small Size League, Middle Size League, and Soccer Simulation Leagues  2027 will be the final year of the international competition for the SSL, MSL, and the soccer simulation leagues, as long as we have sufficient participation. We look forward to transitioning all the scientific advancements from these leagues to humanoid robot soccer.  We welcome proposals from the community to re-imagine how these leagues may  contribute as a bridge to encourage participants from the Junior leagues to continue on with the Major leagues.  3. RoboCupRescue Simulation League The 2025 competition is the final year for RoboCupRescue Simulation as an independent league at the International event. Teams are encouraged to engage with the Rescue Robot League to explore merger concepts and combined evaluation frameworks.  4. RoboCup@Home A single, unified RoboCup@Home league takes effect immediately. The 2025 competition is the last to feature two separate sub-leagues.  5. RoboCupIndustrial The @Work and Logistics sub-leagues will create a new Smart Manufacturing League (SML), merging for the 2026 and 2027 competitions to better address emerging autonomous production and logistics challenges.

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RoboCup Official Livestream - We are live for competition day 2
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 18 Jul '25

18 Jul '25

Good morning RoboCuppers! Here are the live streams to the second competition day here in Salvador: RoboCup Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/robocupofficial RoboCup Brasil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2D98OVM1VA Here is the overview what we are streaming today: 10:00 - 10:10 Opening & Recap of Day 1 10:10 - 10:30 Junior Rescue Sim 10:30 - 11:00: Junior Rescue & Soccer 11:00 - 11:30: @Work 11:30 - 12:00: Rescue Robot BREAK 13:00 - 13:30: SPL 13:30 - 14:00: Logistics (SPL on Standby) 14:00 - 14:30: Humanoid KidSize 14:30 - 14:50: RMRC 14:50 - 15:20: OnStage 15:20 - 16:00 Sim 2D / Sim 3D 16:00 - 16:30 SSL 16:30 - 17:00 @work (SSL on Standby) 17:00 - 17:30 MathWorks ARM 17:30 - 18:00 @Home Again, please go ahead an share the links and let's make RoboCup known even better on an international stage! Cheers Maike

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[RoboCup 2025] Regional Committee Meeting on Friday, July 18, 2025 1.30-3.30 pm
by Ferrein, Alexander Antoine 17 Jul '25

17 Jul '25

Dear RoboCup Regional Committee Chairs, dear RoboCupers, The Regional Committee Meeting will take place tomorrow, Friday, July 18, 2025, 1.30-3.30 pm in Room 5 on the first floor of the venue. All Regional Committee Chairs/representatives who are in Salvador please join us there as the Trustee Election will also take place. For those Regional Committee representatives, who are not here, please join us online using the following Zoom https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83150025321 Meeting-ID: 831 5002 5321 If you plan to attend, please contact me via email to receive the key code. I want to remind all regional committee members who have not yet done so to submit their Regional Committee report. The link to the template is this: https://cloud.robocup.org/s/e4ztPBn48E4y7eD Please submit your presentation with the file name RoboCupRegionalCommittee-YourRegion.pptx by uploading it to the following folder until July 13, 2025: https://cloud.robocup.org/s/c3qiFqN4Cxw5jGX Please let me know, if there are problems with the upload. Many of you are already represented by regional committees. You can find the list of regional committees here: https://www.robocup.org/organization/regional_committees In that case, your representative has already been invited to the meeting. If you are from a country that is not represented, I encourage you to get together with any other participants from your country to form a Regional Committee. The procedure for forming Regional Committees is included at the bottom of this message. Please let me know if you or someone else from your nation is planning to attend this year's meeting. Best Regards, Maike & Alexander on behalf of the RCF President and the Trustees -- Prof. Dr. Alexander Ferrein Mobile Autonomous Systems & Cognitive Robotics Institute Robotics and Foundations of Computer Science FH Aachen - University of Applied Sciences Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Eupener Strasse 70 | 52066 Aachen | Germany T: +49 241 6009 51904 | F: +49 241 6009 52190 E: ferrein(a)fh-aachen.de | W: www.ferrein.fh-aachen.de Speaker Major Competitions of the RoboCup German Regional Committee W: www.robocup.de Former Vice-Chair of the African-German Network of Excellence in Science A Network of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation W: www.agnes-h.org RoboCup Regional Committees =========================== A sufficiently large number of teams, researchers and teachers from any nation, group of nations, or nation-sized region (henceforth "region") with significant past and current RoboCup participation is invited to form a "RoboCup Regional Committee.” The purposes of these committees are to 1) Promote RoboCup within your region. 2) Organize local RoboCup events and RoboCup opens. 3) Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited. 4) Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education within your region and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances through friendly competition. 5) Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in your region. There are local events smaller than regional "open" competitions, which should also be run with regional committee participation, but must be approved by the board of trustees. For each such local event and open, regional committees may at some time in the future be asked to collect a standard RoboCup Federation registration fee from participants and send the resulting funds to the federation (details to be announced if/when this policy goes into effect). The regional committee is also expected to send a report following each event summarizing the participation and organization of the event, including how many people and teams participated, from where, etc. If there are many local events in a given year, they can be grouped together into a single annual report. Each regional committee should have a single chair who serves as the main point of contact with the RoboCup Board of Trustees for questions that are relevant to the region. There should be representation on the committee from all of the different RoboCup leagues in which your region is active (including RoboCupJunior). If not already established, we encourage the regional committees to initiate formation of all aspects of RoboCup activities, including RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCupJunior, and RoboCupAtHome. To form a committee, please get together with all of the participants from your region. Once the list of committee members is prepared, please contact the RoboCup Trustees to let us know: 1) The members and affiliations of the committee. 2) The names, affiliations, and email addresses of all the teams represented by the committee (hopefully all the teams from your region). 3) The URL of your current webpage, if it already exists (see http://www.robocup.org/organization-of-robocup/regional-committees/(http://… for some examples). The Trustees will then check that all the represented teams agree to be represented in this way, and then link the committee to the RoboCup website. The representatives of all RoboCup Regional Committees meet at least once a year during the annual RoboCup event to discuss with the Trustees about the development of RoboCup in their regions and in general. Furthermore, while vacancies exist in the Board of Trustees, one appointment is reserved for election by the regional committees (one vote per regional committee).

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