The Artificial Intelligence Advanced Research Institute of Chukyo University (Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture) has been certified as a cooperating organization for the "RoboCup 2017 Nagoya World Congress" to be held from July 7 to 25, 31.Participation in this world competition will give further momentum to the 2017th anniversary of the institute's founding.
The "RoboCup 40 Nagoya World Championship", which is expected to attract 3,000 athletes and 10 visitors from 2017 countries, will be held at the Nagoya City International Exhibition Center.RoboCup is an international project advocated by Japanese researchers for the purpose of fusion and development of robotics and artificial intelligence. "By 2050, we will win the soccer world cup champion with autonomous robots. The grand goal is to set.Several laboratories such as Hashimoto Lab are scheduled to participate from Chukyo University.Hashimoto Laboratory participated in the "Amazon Picking Challenge 2016" competition for logistics automation technology with Mitsubishi Electric and others, and has a track record of being ranked 8th alongside the world's leading universities.
The Institute for Artificial Intelligence has been actively supporting the event by taking charge of the main exhibition at the pre-event "RoboCup is coming to Higashiyama!" Held at Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya City in August 2016.At the pre-event, demonstrations on soccer robots and artificial intelligence will be exhibited. Although it was only 8 hours in 2 days, a total of 6 people visited the venue and it was exciting.
Chukyo University supports the tournament as an official sponsor along with 50 companies and institutions * such as Toyota Motor Corporation.In the future, he will participate in events related to the competition and participate in events during the world competition.
* As of 2017 year 5 month 1 day
Reference: RoboCup 2017 Nagoya World Championship Official Homepage
