Carnegie Mellon University Hosts Media Breakfast to Kick off RoboCup American Open and Visit From ASIMO Robot.

(From AScribe)

PITTSBURGH -- Soccer fans and robotics enthusiasts alike will converge at Carnegie Mellon University May 2-4, 2003, while teams of autonomous soccer playing robots from North and South America go head to head at the International RoboCup Federation's first American Open. The competition will feature three leagues, small-size wheeled robots, Sony legged Aibo robots and computer simulation. Carnegie Mellon also will showcase search-and-rescue robots in a disaster arena, developed by experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. During demonstrations May 2 and 3, attendees will be able to use a simulator to control a robot as it searches …