The Embassy of Brazil in Islamabad is proud to announce that a group of 7 Pakistani Students from the Center of Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE) of Islamabad, are travelling to Brazil to take part in the International Robotics Competition, also known as RoboCup, to take place in the city of Joao Pessoa, in the Northeast of Brazil, from 19th to 25th July 2014. Delegations of 45 countries with 3,000 university students will take part in the event. More than 60,000 visitors are also expected to in Joao Pessoa. The name RoboCup is a contraction of the competition`s full name “Robot Soccer World Cup”. The RoboCup started in Nagoya, Japan, in 1997. Since then, the tournament happens every year in a different country. The 2013 edition of RoboCup took place in Eindhoven, Netherlands. This year`s competition in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, will the 18th edition of the event.
The objective of RoboCup is to promote robotics and artificial intelligence research by offering a publicly appealing, but formidable challenge. The official goal of the project is: “By 2050 a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official rules of the International Football Federation Association (FIFA), against the winner of the most recent FIFA World Cup”. The organizers recognize that this goal is ambitious, but they remind that a robot has already won a competition with the best world chess player. The RoboCup 2014 will bring the brightest minds in robotics and artificial intelligence to Brazil to display in the tournament their technological advancements and research. There will be robot soccer competitions in 3 different categories: the Standard Platform League (with robots with physical similarities of human beings, of 32 inches high), the Middle Size League (robots of up to 20 inches high) and the Small Size League (robots with up to 6 inches high). The Pakistani Delegation will compete in the Middle Size League.