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News and Announcements
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- June 2008: On 27. June 2008 the RoboCup Junior Australia Hunter Regional Competition 2008 for school students will be held at The Forum on our campus. The competition disciplines are robot dance, robot soccer, and robot rescue. For infos and registration please contact RoboCup Junior Australia or directly the NSW chair persion at email: rja_nsw_08@schofieldfamily.net
- May 2008: A new team, the NUManoids, has been formed. It is a collaborative effort of the NUbots and an associated group at the National University of Maynooth in Ireland in order to participate in the standard platform league (SPL) at RoboCup. The new Nao humanoid robots from Aldebaran replace the AIBOs in the SPL. Currently the NUManoids are preparing for RoboCup 2008 in Suzhou, China.
- September 2007: The NUbot AIBO robot dog team is retiring from active competition. Their last public demo game was held at the University of Newcastle information day on 8. September 2007. Although the RoboCup four-legged league is fading out the previous members and adjoints of the NUbots continue research on several exiting robotics related projects.
- RoboCup 1.-10. July 2007: The NUbots spead their efforts over three projects. The AIBO team achieved a second place in the competition of the remaining four-legged league teams (detailed results). Oliver became first in the 3D-simulation development league. The hardware team demonstrated two new robot prototypes (dog and bear) which were developed in collaboration with Tribotix.
- June 2006: We are world champion!
The year 2006 marked 10 years of RoboCup, 50 years of AI research, and with Sony's announcement of the end of the production of the AIBO robot the peak of the four-legged league (movie).
- RoboCup 2006: The NUbots are competing at RoboCup 2006 in Bremen, Germany. This is one of the most prestigious and progressive international research events in the area of intelligent robotics. RoboCup 2006 is a large scale high publicity event held in Germany in conjunction with the Human soccer world cup. There is live broadcast at www.heute.de. The four-legged league scores are available at http://www.tzi.de/4legged/bin/view/Website/Results06.
- Projects available: Students interested in joining the NUbots or to work on associated projects (Honours, Masters, PhD, final year, or undergraduate projects) are invited contact us for further information (contacts).
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