<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">We have a team from Montreal who is preparing to participate at the international event next year once again. It just came to our attention from the RoboCup.org website that the new @Home standard platform robot would be Softbanks Pepper. </font><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.robocup.org/2016/07/toyota-and-softbank-robotics-are-selected-for-home-standard-platform/">http://www.robocup.org/2016/07/toyota-and-softbank-robotics-are-selected-for-home-standard-platform/</a> </span><span style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">It states that the first demonstration will be in Nagoya 2017. </span></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;font-size:small">What would that mean for the international competition in 2018? Are all teams expected to use a Pepper robot or will the team be permitted to build their own robot once again going forward?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;font-size:small">Thank you for the clarification,</div><br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" size="1"><b><br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:x-small">R</span><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;display:inline">obocup Montreal, Canada</div><font face="georgia, serif" size="1"><b><br></b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" size="1"><b>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</b><br>Sara Iatauro, PhD. (STEM scholar)</font></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="1"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);line-height:18px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div>“Educating the mind without educating </span></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="1"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);line-height:18px">the heart </span><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);line-height:18px">is no education at all.” - </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2192.Aristotle" style="color:rgb(102,102,0);text-decoration:none;line-height:18px" target="_blank"><i>Aristotle</i></a> </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="1"><b>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</b></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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