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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">First Amirkabir Robotic and Artificial
Intelligence Festival (ARAIF2012) is going to be held on 13th to 16th October
2012 at Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran (</span><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir">http://autfair.aut.ac.ir</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">). This big event contains four
different parts.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">1- Third
International Amirkabir Robotic Competition. (AUTCUP2012)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">2- First
Amirkabir Artificial Intelligence Competition. (AAIC2012)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">3- First
Industrial and Scientific Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Congress.
(ARAIC2012)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">4- First
Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Exhibition. (ARAIE2012)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">For the third year, Amirkabir Robotic Competition (AUTCup2012)
is going to be one of the major and interesting parts of this festival. It
contains more than 10 different leagues. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">1- <a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012/index_e.php?rlc=details_e&title=Real%20Rescue%20Robots&l_id=1#part1"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Real Rescue Robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">2- <a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012/index_e.php?rlc=details_e&title=Medical%20Robotics&l_id=2#part1"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Medical Robotics</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">3- <a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012/index_e.php?rlc=details_e&title=Urban%20Robots&l_id=3#part1"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Urban Robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">4- <a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012/index_e.php?rlc=details_e&title=Humanoid%20Robots&l_id=4#part1"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Humanoid Robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">5- <a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012/index_e.php?rlc=details_e&title=Service%20Delivery%20robots&l_id=5#part1"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Service Delivery
robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">6- <span style="color:black;text-decoration:none"><a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012/index_e.php?rlc=details_e&title=ROV&l_id=6#part1">ROV</a> (</span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(69,69,69);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-auto">Radio Operated Vehicles- Underwater Robots)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">7- <a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012/index_e.php?rlc=details_e&title=Flying%20Robots&l_id=7#part1"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Flying Robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">8- <a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012/index_e.php?rlc=details_e&title=Deminer%20Robots&l_id=8#part1"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Deminer Robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">9- <a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012/index_e.php?rlc=details_e&title=Demonstration%20Robots&l_id=9#part1"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Demonstration
Robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">10- <a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012/index_e.php?rlc=details_e&title=Warehouse%20Robots&l_id=10#part1"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Warehouse Robots</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The
Committee of international AUTCup2012 wants to invite you to participate in this
Competition and hopes this would be a very memorable start for our academic cooperation
in Robotics and AI. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Please
visit our official website (</span><a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012">http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012</a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">)
and do not forget to pre-register your team before August 21st! </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Please
feel free to contact me for any further information about the competition, registration,
travel support, visa and international affairs.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Good
luck with your research and hope to see you all in IRAN</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Soroush
Sadeghnejad</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">On
behalf of Technical Committee </span></p>
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