Author: Ehsan Marjani

The General Schedule of the RoboCup 2022– Bangkok, Thailand A PDF version is also available. The page of Match Results will be updated after each game (until the final game). Live streaming of the RoboCup 2022 Bangkok is available at www.robocup.live

Register to Pre-RoboCup 2022 Dear All, We would like to invite you to “Pre-RoboCup” event which will be held on 27-29 January 2022. The organization team will hold the Pre-RoboCup event where the main objective is not only to promote but also to be the starting point for our RoboCup 2022 event on 11-17 July 2022. In this event, the introduction, updated rule and regulations of each league as well as technical talks will be presented. Please kindly confirm your participation by fill out this registration form. For more detailed information regarding the event, please visit our website at https://2022.robocup.org/pre-robocup. Thank you for your interest. We look forward to seeing you at Pre-RoboCup 2022. RoboCup 2022 Organizing Team

RoboCup 2022 Middle Size League July 11 to 17, 2022 (Bangkok, Thailand) https://2022.robocup.org Call For Participation MSL 2022 (PDF) We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2022 RoboCup MSL World Championships. If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2022 MSL competitions. 1) Pre-registration For the pre-registration please send an e-mail to rc-msl-oc@lists.robocup.org and liufei@caa.org.cn containing the following data: team name URL of the team’s home page name of the team leader e-mail address of team or team leader affiliation country link to the qualification materials Please send more information about teams to introduce them better on MSL website (https://msl.robocup.org/teams). Sending following information would be optional: logo profile (describe team with at most 150 words) most…

MSL Rulebook for the RoboCup 2022 published We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2022 RoboCup MSL World Championships. If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2022 MSL competitions when it is available via the main website (https://2022.robocup.org/). The rules, including the assessment criteria of the qualification material, are changed and published on the MSL website (https://msl.robocup.org/rules). Visit the MSL website to access the official rulebook for RoboCup MSL in 2022, along with a document summarizing the main changes. Noting that the current rulebook is a draft version and it will have some minor changes, therefore checking the website for future updates is needed. The 2022 MSL Technical Committee

The MSL Discord Server The RoboCup MSL Discord server is up for cross-league collaborations. To join the server: https://discord.gg/GTg33WMGhU

Draw Results for the Technical Challenge and the Scientific Challenge of the 2021 virtual competitions The first team leader meeting was held on May 23, 2021. The presentation ppt file is available here. The results of the Technical Challenge and the Scientific Challenge draws are as follows (teams will present their work online in the following order): Technical Challenge (June 26th) Scientific Challenge (June 27th) Order Team Order Team 1 DAGOZILLA                 1 ASML Falcons 2 ASML Falcons 2 CAMBADA 3 IRIS 3 Hibikino-Musashi 4 Robot Club Toulon 4 IRIS 5 NuBot 5 Water 6 Tech United Eindhoven 6 Tech United Eindhoven 7 Water 7 DAGOZILLA 8 CAMBADA 8 VDL Robot Sports 9 MRL 9 Robot Club Toulon 10 VDL Robot Sports 10 MRL 11 Hibikino-Musashi 11 NuBot Note 1: The…

As announced before by the RoboCup Federation, the qualified teams of the 2020 competitions are automatically qualified for the 2021 competitions. TC members of the MSL are finalizing the qualification ranking due to qualification material updates of some teams, however, we are happy to announce the list of qualified teams for the 2021 MSL virtual competitions (alphabetically sorted). A total number of eleven teams passed pre-qualification. Points and a complete ranking will be published and announced in near future, however, an alphabetically sorted list is as follow: Team Name Affiliation Country ASML Falcons ASML The Netherlands CAMBADA University of Aveiro Portugal DAGOZILLA Bandung Institute of Technology Indonesia Hibikino-Musashi Kyushu Institute of Technology Japan IRIS Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Indonesia MRL Qazvin Islamic Azad University Iran Nubot National University of Defense…

RoboCup 2021 (Virtual) Middle Size League June 22 to 28, 2021 (Bordeaux, France) https://2021.robocup.org Call for Participation MSL 2021 (PDF) We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2021 RoboCup MSL World Championships (Virtual). If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2021 (Virtual)  MSL competitions. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, RoboCup 2021 (Virtual) will be a distributed, remote event. As such, for the Middle Size League, the remote competitions consist of the Scientific Challenge as well as the Technical Challenge. 1)    Pre-registration For the pre-registration please send an e-mail to rc-msl-oc@lists.robocup.org and liufei@caa.org.cn containing the following data: team name URL of the team’s home page name of the team leader e-mail address of team or team leader affiliation country link to…

MSL Rulebook for the RoboCup 2021 published We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2021 RoboCup MSL World Championships which will be held virtually and remotely this year. If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2021 MSL competitions when it is available via the main website (https://2021.robocup.org/). The rules, including the assessment criteria of the qualification material, are changed and published on the MSL website (https://msl.robocup.org/rules). Visit the MSL website to access the official rulebook for RoboCup MSL in 2021, along with a document summarizing the main changes. Noting that the current rulebook is a draft version and it will have some minor changes, therefore checking the website for future updates is needed. The 2021 MSL Technical Committee

Dear MSL Teams We have just been asked by the Trustees to provide feedback about the possibility of having a presential limited edition of RoboCup2021 at Bordeaux. They are requesting a response by November the 30th. In short, they would like to know if each league is able to organize either a: virtual event; or a hybrid event, with only a small number of local teams and/or organizers (and possibly robots) physically present. Although desirable, it is no mandatory that every league can participate. A few goals are pointed out as important, such as: The event should allow the community to come together Research on difficult topics should be addressed They would like to be able to point out champions of each league There should be league meetings that allow…