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First Amirkabir Robotic and Artificial
Intelligence Festival
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November 13-16, 2012
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Tehran, Iran
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">[NEWS] 153 teams from 5
countries have so far pre-registered for this event.</span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">First Amirkabir Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Festival
(ARAIF2012) is going to be held on 13th to 16th November 2012 at
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue"><a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://autfair.aut.ac.ir</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;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:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">1- Third International Amirkabir Robotic Competition.
(AUTCUP2012)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">2- First Amirkabir Artificial Intelligence Competition.
(AAIC2012)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;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:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">4- First Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Exhibition.
(ARAIE2012)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;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:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;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" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Real Rescue Robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;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" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Medical Robotics</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;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" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Urban Robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;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" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Humanoid Robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;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" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Service Delivery robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">6- <a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012/index_e.php?rlc=details_e&title=ROV&l_id=6#part1" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">ROV</span></a> (Radio Operated Vehicles- Underwater Robots)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;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" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Flying Robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;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" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Deminer Robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;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" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Demonstration Robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;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" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">Warehouse Robots</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;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:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Please visit our official website (<a href="http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://autfair.aut.ac.ir/AUTCUP2012</span></a>) and do not
forget to pre-register your team before September 10st!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;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:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Good luck with your research and hope to see you all in IRAN</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Soroush Sadeghnejad</span></p>
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