1. FIRA-ISI Robot Soccer Workshop and Championship in Dubai, U.A.E.

http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conf.htm#isi2001
http://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/robolion/dubai/

American University in Dubai, in conjunction with the International
NAISO Congress on INFORMATION SCIENCE INNOVATIONS, March 17-21,
2001.

Ten teams from ten countries are invited to take part in the FIRA-ISI
Robot Soccer Workshop and Championship: Australia, Austria, China,
Germany, Korea, Philippines, Poland, Singapore,Taiwan and
United Kingdom.

It is learned that, the Crown Prince of Dubai might attend the opening
ceremony on March 17, 2001.

Tentative schedule:
- March 17: Workshop on Soccer Robotics
- March 18: Orientation, group selection, and system set-up
- March 19: Preliminary games (till 4:00 pm)
- March 20: Preliminary games
- March 21: Semi-final and final games, and Award ceremony

The Robot Soccer championship will be covered by 7 or 8 Satellite
TVs from the entire Middle East.

For further information, please contact:

a. Milad Fares Sebaaly, Dr. Eng. (msebaaly@aud.edu)
ISI2001 General Chair (http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conf.htm#isi2001)
b. Jong-Hwan Kim, Ph.D. (johkim@vivaldi.kaist.ac.kr)
Workshop Co-Chair
c. Prahlad Vadakkepat, Ph.D. (prahlad@nus.edu.sg)
Workshop Co-Chair and Organizing Chair



2. FIRA Robot World Cup and Robot World Congress 2001

Beijing, August 1-5, 2001.
http://fira.hit.edu.cn/rwc2001/

Venue: The Science Museum of China,Beijing
Dates : August 1-5,2001
Schedule:
- Robot World Congress - August 1-2, 2001
- Robot World Cup - August 3-5, 2001

For further details, please contact,
Prof. Hong Bing-Rong


3. The 4th FIRA European Championship, Czech Republic, June 5-8, 2001.

The 4th FIRA European Championship will be held at the Technical
University of Ostrava, Czech Republic on June 5-8, 2001. During the
Championship Prof. Kopacek (Vienna Univeristy of Technology)
and Prof. Reusch (University of Dortmund) will establish the FIRA European
Chapter.

Please contact Prof. Bohumil Horak for further
details.


4. FIRA KheperaSot Tournament, Germany, October 22-25, 2001

http://wwwhni.uni-paderborn.de/sct/symposium

The Kheperasot tournament is planned in connection with the AMiRE 2000
(Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment Symposium)

For Futher Details, Please Contact Dr. Joaquin Sitte
Director, Smart Lab, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia
E-mail: j.sitte@qut.edu.au


5. International Robot Olympiad 2001, Hong Kong, November 3-4, 2001

The second International Robot Olympiad will be held in Hong Kong
between November 3-4, 2001. Participants from Hong Kong, Korea,
Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand will take part in this Olympiad.

Each participating nation will organize copetitions at the local and
National levels. The local competition will take place in May 2001,
followed by the competitions at the National level during the Summer
Vacation. The third Korean National robot olympiad competition will
be held on August 18 and 19, 2001.

Participtants within the age of 12 to 17 years are allowed
to take part in the International Robot Olympiad. It is required
to build and program the robots independently. Participants are
expected to take part in different categories of competitions like,
Robot Soccer, Micro Robot Maze, Robot Racing, Robot Adventure, etc.

For more information please visit or E-mail to



6. FIRA Robot World Cup Australia 2000.

Email - rwc2000@cqu.edu.au
http://fira.cqu.edu.au/rwc2000

The ranking of the FIRA Benchmarking published in the FIRA Newsletter
Vol. 6, No. 1, dated Oct. 28, 2000, contains some typographical errors.
The official ranking is provided here. The error crept in to the previous
newsletter (Vol. 6, No. 1) is regretted.

FIRA Benchmark Ranking:
1. Hit-BinHua, China
2. BagYo, Philippines
3. Soty-IV, Korea
4. PowerSupply3, Korea
5. KingGo, Korea
6. RoboLion, Singapore


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Editor-in-Chief: Jong-Hwan Kim
Editors: Prahlad Vadakkepat, Han Pang Huang, Igor Verner, Elmer Dadios,
Jun Jo, Norbert Jesse, Paul Robinson, Bingrong Hong,
Man-Wook Han, Amitabha Mukerjee, Roberto Tavares,
Chao Cheng, Chris H. Messom, Krzysztof R.Kozlowski,
J.L. de la Rosa I Esteva

Editorial Staffs: Jin-Ah Lee and Hye-Young Park

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