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[2003 FIRA Cup Austria Competition results]
 The FIRA Cup is a dynamic and intelligent competition of robots with good strategy, which is open to all.
This year's party is over, and for those who could not make it to the competitions in Vienna, you can look forward to the forthcoming competitions in Korea. We look forward to meeting you all again at the 2004 FIRA Cup at Busan (November 11~14, 2004), Korea.
FIRA warmly thanks the FIRA 2003 General Chairman Prof Kopacek and Dr. Man-Wook Han for their leadership at the 2003 World Cup.
 Competition result:
Amazing moments; Soccer Robot dressed up for waltz!
More beautiful moments at the FIRA Cup
http://him.at/story.asp?nr=03100201
September 28th, 2003 | Octoberr 1st, 2003
September 29th, 2003 | October 3rd, 2003 |
[Argentina Robots Soccer Championship]
 FIRA SimuroSot championship Argentina 2004.
II Argentinean Championship of Robots Soccer
* Time: June 9 - 11, 2004
* Venue: UNCPBA - Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina
* Organizer Committee members:
- Jose A. Fernandez Leon [UNCPBA] (jleon@exa.unicen.edu.ar), General Chair
- Juan Miguel Santos [UBA - Universidad de Buenos Aires] (jmsantos@dc.uba.ar), Co-Chair
- Hector Nelson Acosta [UNCPBA] (nacosta@exa.unicen.edu.ar), Co-Chair
* Official Website www.exa.unicen.edu.ar/cafr2004 |
 [Global Digital Cities Nework event]
The Global Digital Cities Network (GDCN) event was held at the Gold Coast, Australia, from September 22 to 24, 2003. The GDCN convention is an annual event, which brings together City Mayors, IT Developers and University Academics from 11 cities in various countries. Small League MiroSot and Middle League SimuroSot took place at this special event.
[ASEAN Project in the works]
Two researchers from each of the 10 ASEAN Countries are nominated for the ASEAN Multi-robot cooperation project. The representatives will be educated on the Multi-Robot Cooperation System with a 5 vs.5 Middle League MiroSot setup during November 5~9 at KAIST, Korea. A robot soccer tournament is planned for the ASEAN country teams on the last day of the project.
Project Official WebSite : http://asean.kaist.ac.kr
* Accepted participants for the ASEAN project are listed below *
| NO. |
Country |
Name of Participant |
| 1 |
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM |
HJ MD SALLEH, HJ MD SHARIFUDDIN/ BIN PENGIRAN TUAH, AWANGKU NOR JAIDI |
| 2 |
CAMBODIA |
PAGNARITH, KHUON SAING/ IM, VUTHA |
| 3 |
INDONESIA |
RIJANTO, ESTIKO/ SAKTI, INDRA |
| 4 |
LAOS |
BOUPHA, SILAP/PHIMSIPASOM, BOUN-OM |
| 5 |
MALAYSIA |
ZAINAL ABIDIN, MOHAMAD SHUKRI/SHAFIE, AMIR AKRAMIN |
| 6 |
MYANMAR |
DAW, LE LE YI /DAW TIN TIN NAING |
| 7 |
PHILLIPHINES |
XAVIER, MONICA DIAZ / REYES, ROSULA SAN JOSE |
| 8 |
SINGAPORE |
YOW, KIN CHOONG / LIM, PETER |
| 9 |
THAILAND |
DEPAIWA, NATTAWOOT / MANEEWARN, THAVIDA |
| 10 |
VIETNAM |
LE, ANH TUAN / PHAM, MINH NGOC | |
 [The 5th International Robot Olympiad ]
“BUILD YOUR ROBOT, DESIGN OUR FUTURE”
Period : November 6(TUR) ~ 9 (SUN), 2003
Place : National Science Museum, Daejoen, Korea
Categories:
| Junior League(under 13) |
Challenge League (13~ 18) |
Robot Line Tracing
Stair Climbing Robot
Robot Survival Game |
Legged Robot Obstacle
Race Stair Climbing Robot
Vision Robot Rescue Operation
FIRA Robot Soccer (exhibition game) |
Robot Olympiad is an event of science, technology and education, offering promising youngsters an opportunity to expand their horizons by designing and building robot models. This year, around 66 teams with a total number of 300 students selected by National competition from 12 countries will participate at this event. The 1st Robotics Education Symposium also takes place as a Sub event of IRO 2003.
Official Website: www.iroc.org |
[HuroSot Issue]
A Fully Autonomous system was initially implicated at the FIRA Cup 2003 .
Many people are astonished to watch the walking robots, moving by themselves. 
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Opinions |
Suggestions
For Next |
| GoodPoint |
Having not to schedule around the Mirosot competition is such a HUGE advantage for organizing the event |
HuroSot Junior,
(Semi utonomous)
Simulator HuroSot |
| Request |
Need a platform for the beginners to take part in |
More opinions and suggestions? Send your opinions to
Prof. Jackey Baltes(jacky@cs.umanitoba.ca), the HuroSot Chair. |
[Voice to HQ ]
 Rule modification- Suggestions are welcome! You can email to<office@fira.net>or post your comments at the FIRA bulletin board. |
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