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IJCAI-13 ROBOT COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION</div><p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Call for Participation</b></p>
<div class="subtitle" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(195,18,48);margin-bottom:20px;font-size:14px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Competition</div>
<p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">IJCAI-13 will host a Robot Competition to help raise awareness of robotics in the AI community and to identify robotics problems that AI can help to address. The competition will take place at IJCAI -13 in Beijing and it is open to all intelligent robots.</p>
<p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">There will be four prizes on offer for real-time robot demonstrations in the following categories: physical skills (e.g. manipulation and motion), social skills (e.g. human-robot interaction,multi-robot collaboration, theory of mind), service tasks (e.g. general-purpose service, cleaning the house, cocktail waiter, security guard) and open (e.g. incredibly awesome applications). The key criteria are as follows:</p>
<ul style="margin:1.5em 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li>Innovation - what new value or potential impact does the demonstrated capability bring;</li>
<li>Significance - quality of new AI/Robotics research questions it addresses or exposes;</li><li>Technical Quality - how well is the demonstration accomplished;</li><li>Understandability - quality of the demonstration presentation.</li>
</ul><p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Each demonstration is expected to be performed in an arena (like a living room) and required to be completed in less than 10 minutes with synchronous presentation/commendatory, followed by a 10 minute Q&A.</p>
<p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If you are interested in participating in the IJCAI Robot Competition, please complete the registration form below, and send it to the<a href="mailto:jianmin@ustc.edu.cn" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(148,14,66)">jianmin@ustc.edu.cn</a> by Friday May 10, 2013.</p>
<p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Entry Team Name:<br>Country:<br>Affiliations:<br>Contact Details including email address:<br>
Team Description including link to website if there is one:<br>Robot Description including link to website if there is one:<br>Task/Skill Description of the robot skill/task you will attempt, the AI problems you will address, your general approach, photo/video(s) of the robot(s) not more than 2 pages.<br>
Successful teams will be notified by May 20 if they can be accommodated at the IJCAI-13 venue.</p><div class="subtitle" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(195,18,48);margin-bottom:20px;font-size:14px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Exhibition</div><p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">A robot exhibition will be held together with the 2013 IJCAI Robot Competition. The Robot Exhibition is designed to provide a unique opportunity for universities and companies to bring your robots and show them at the exhibit area, which is open to the conference participants and the public. If you are interested in participating in the IJCAI Robot Exhibition, please send the registration form to<a href="mailto:jianmin@ustc.edu.cn" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(148,14,66)">jianmin@ustc.edu.cn</a> by Friday May 20, 2013.</p>
<p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Xiaoping Chen and Mary-Anne Williams<br>Chairs, the 2013 IJCAI Robot Competition and Exhibition</p>
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------<br><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">Professor Mary-Anne Williams</span> <div><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">Director, Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab</span><div><div><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">Associate Dean (Research and Development)</span><div>
<div style="color:rgb(255,102,0)">Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology<br>University of Technology, Sydney</div><div><b style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="font-weight:normal"><div>Research and Development Office</div>
<div>Building 2 Level 7 Room 7092</div></span></b><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">P.O. 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia</span><br style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Phone: + 61 2 9514 2663 (Gunasmin)</span><br style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">
<font color="#999999">Facsimile: + 61 2 9514 2868</font><br></div></div></div><div><font color="#999999">Faculty: <a href="http://codex.stanford.edu/people" target="_blank">CodeX Stanford University</a> </font></div><div>
<font color="#999999">Web: <a href="http://themagiclab.org/Mary-Anne" target="_blank">http://TheMagicLab.org/Mary-Anne</a></font></div><div>
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