RoboCup 2009 

After Atlanta, USA and Suzhou, China RoboCup will be back in Europe in 2009. RoboCup, the largest and most important event for intelligent and autonomous robots, will take place 2009 in Austria for the first time. Since 1997 RoboCup has been the frontier of research in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Pushing forward the boundaries of what robots are able to do is a major driving force of RoboCup.

From June 29 to the July 5 2009 the best robot teams from all over the world will compete in the world championship for intelligent robots in Graz, Austria. Up to 3000 participants from about 40 countries are expected to run for the crown in the robot soccer, rescue, service robot and junior leagues.