<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Dear RoboCup Teams<br><br>This is a reminder that the deadline for pre-registration is approaching quickly.<br><br>Best,<br>
Soroush<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> <span class="">Second</span> Amirkabir Robotic and Artificial
Intelligence Festival</span></p>
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</span>October 29 - November 2, 2013<span> <br></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Tehran, Iran</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span> </span><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://araif2013.aut.ac.ir" target="_blank">http://araif2013.aut.ac.ir</a></span></u><span> </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span class="">Second</span> Amirkabir Robotic and Artificial
Intelligence Festival (ARAIF2013) is going to be held on 29<sup>th</sup>
October to 2<sup>nd</sup> November 2013 at Amirkabir University of Technology
(Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran (<u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://araif2013.aut.ac.ir" target="_blank">http://araif2013.aut.ac.ir</a></span></u>).
This interesting international event contains three different parts.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">1- Fourth International Amirkabir Robotic
Competition. (AUTCUP2013)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">2- <span class="">Second</span> Amirkabir Artificial Intelligence
Competition. (AAIC2013)</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">3- <span class="">Second</span> Industrial and Scientific Robotic and
Artificial Intelligence Congress. (ARAIC2013)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For the fourth year, Amirkabir Robotic
Competition (AUTCup2013) is going to be one of the major and interesting parts
of this festival. It contains 10 different leagues.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">1- Real Rescue Robots
(Flying & Ground Robots) </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">2- Medical
Robots</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">3- Urban Robots</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">4- Humanoid
Robots (Humanoid & NAO)<br></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">5- Service
Delivery Robots</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">6- @Work Robots</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">7- Industrial
Robots</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">8- Deminer
Robots</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">9- Small Size Robots</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">10- Warehouse
Robots</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Committee of international AUTCup2013 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><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Please visit our official website (<u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://araif2013.aut.ac.ir" target="_blank">http://araif2013.aut.ac.ir</a></span></u>) and do not forget
to pre-register your team before October 2<sup>nd</sup>!</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12pt;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>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;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 style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Soroush Sadeghnejad</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">On behalf of Technical Committee</span></div></div>