<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear RoboCup participants,</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">MathWorks is a global sponsor of the RoboCup Federation. Sebastian Castro asked me to forward this news from them, that may be of interest to you.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Best Regards,</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Peter Stone</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Vice President, RoboCup Federation<br></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">=================================<br></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We have some exciting news from MathWorks.</span></p>
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<b><span>1.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></b><b>Visit the new <a href="https://www.mathworks.com/academia/student-competitions/roboticsarena.html" target="_blank">
MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena page</a></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We have released a video series for all robotics and unmanned systems student competitions. New uploads and
<a href="https://blogs.mathworks.com/racing-lounge/category/robotics/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt">blog posts</span></a> will be shared on our
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/RoboticsArena/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt">Facebook group</span></a>.</span></p>
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<b><span>2.<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></b><b>MATLAB R2017b is now available!<br>
</b>If your team already has a license, <b><a href="https://www.mathworks.com/downloads/" target="_blank">download R2017b here</a></b>.
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Otherwise, have your advisor or team leader request a complimentary license for your
<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/academia/student-competitions/robocup.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt">RoboCup</span></a> or
<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/academia/student-competitions/robocup-junior.html" target="_blank">
<span style="font-size:12pt">RoboCupJunior</span></a> team.<br>
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New capabilities include:</span></p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.mathworks.com/products/text-analytics.html" target="_blank"><b>Text Analytics Toolbox</b></a><b> (NEW in R2017b):</b> Use MATLAB for processing, analyzing, and visualizing text data
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.mathworks.com/products/gpu-coder.html" target="_blank"><b>GPU Coder</b></a><b> (NEW in R2017b):</b> Generate optimized CUDA code from MATLAB, including neural networks, to speed up code or deploy to NVIDIA GPUs</p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New""><span>o<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.mathworks.com/products/automated-driving.html" target="_blank"><b>Automated Driving System Toolbox</b></a><b> (NEW in R2017a, just added for RoboCup):</b> Perform ground truth labeling, sensor fusion, object detection and
classification with machine learning, and more</p>
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</span></span></span><b>Machine learning updates</b> including <a href="https://www.mathworks.com/products/neural-network/whatsnew.html" target="_blank">
more deep learning functionality</a> and <a href="https://www.mathworks.com/help/vision/ug/semantic-segmentation-basics.html" target="_blank">
semantic image segmentation</a></p>
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</span></span></b><b>Find us at RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017</b><br>
We will be attending the <b><a href="http://www.robocup-ap2017.org" target="_blank">RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP)</a></b> event from December 12-18. Looking forward to talking to teams and offering our support.</p>
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</span></span></b><b><a href="http://www.embedded-computing.com/dev-tools-and-os/competitions-prepare-students-for-changing-technology-landscapes" target="_blank">Read our article</a> on how competitions like RoboCup are shaping future engineers<br>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Best,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(68,84,106)">Sebastian Castro</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.mathworks.com/academia/student-competitions/roboticsarena.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img style="width: 3.5208in; height: 0.552in;" id="gmail-m_7921978097088173064Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D33381.09DAFA60" alt="msra" class="gmail-CToWUd" width="338" height="53" border="0"></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(59,56,56)">Join the MATLAB and Simulink Robotics Arena :
<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/RoboticsArena" target="_blank">Video Series</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/RoboticsArena/" target="_blank">
Facebook</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(59,56,56)">Sign up for complimentary training :
<a href="https://www.mathworks.com/academia/student-competitions/computer-vision-training.html" target="_blank">
Computer Vision</a> | <a href="https://www.mathworks.com/academia/student-competitions/physical-modeling-training.html" target="_blank">
Physical Modeling</a></span></p>
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