1. Gerald Steinbauer Institute for Software Technology 1 RoboCup - A Platform for Teaching and Research in Robotics and AI Gerald Steinbauer Institute for Software Technology Graz University of Technology

2. Gerald Steinbauer Institute for Software Technology 2 RoboCup - A Platform for Teaching and Research in Robotics and AI Motivation established around mid 1990s after “disappointing” experiences with chess genius, challenging, ambitious goal interaction among agents and the environment dynamic nondeterministic environment one of the largest and most successful robotics events RoboCup Vision: By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team.

3. Gerald Steinbauer Institute for Software Technology 3 RoboCup - A Platform for Teaching and Research in Robotics and AI The RoboCup Leagues Soccer Simulation Soccer Small Size Soccer Mid Size Soccer Standard Platform Soccer Humanoid Rescue Real Robot RoboCup@HomeRoboCupJunior Rescue Simulation

4. Gerald Steinbauer Institute for Software Technology 4 RoboCup - A Platform for Teaching and Research in Robotics and AI RoboCup 2009 Graz June 29 - July 5 2009 over 2300 participants 407 teams 44 nations over 700 visa applications 33.000 m 2 space 15 km of network cable over 1 million € budget limit for a university to organize games, symposium, accompanying program

5. Gerald Steinbauer Institute for Software Technology 5 RoboCup - A Platform for Teaching and Research in Robotics and AI Pitfalls keep the balance between research and show it is not (always) “rocket science” how to draw attention to the symposium somehow closed community academic structures do not work anymore tune the rules in the right way -people from outside do not really know what RoboCup is all about

6. Gerald Steinbauer Institute for Software Technology 6 RoboCup - A Platform for Teaching and Research in Robotics and AI Goodies easily attract students of all age to science and technology explains research to the general public ideal platform for teaching of various topics some elaborated benchmarks for research (e.g., rescue real robot and @home league) fosters integrated complete systems immense passion and energy of the participants a huge strong network of top student and researchers

7. Gerald Steinbauer Institute for Software Technology 7 RoboCup - A Platform for Teaching and Research in Robotics and AI Summary has a clear long term vision and pursuits it inspires and motivates people show how to sell your research RoboCup is a success story shows progress every year -has to be more open minded -has to ask the right questions -evaluate the impact to the field -high demand on financial and human rescources

8. Gerald Steinbauer Institute for Software Technology 8 RoboCup - A Platform for Teaching and Research in Robotics and AI Thank you for your attention! Questions ?