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Blitz, Buster, the Citizen robots (all described in items below), and ourselves are now at RoboCup. The next two days are prep-days, and competitions begin after that. Thanks for everybody's well-wishes for the competition! We will be updating a gallery and a video directory for RoboCup-2007 as time permits. Some initial items are there now - see the appropriate menu item on the left.

 

Scoring a goal against Iran in the Citizen Robot Soccer Competition

The FIRA robotics competitions are later this week in San Francisco, and our robots Blitz and Buster will be there competing in humanoid competitions.

 
The robots are built from the Bioloids platform, and use Nokia mobile phones for vision and processing. Sample videos showing humanoid weightlifting (a clean and jerk) and free kick using these platforms are under Fira2007 in the videos section, and are shown below if your browser supports inline video. These robots will also be appearing at RoboCup in Atlanta in July .


Update: This work was featured in New Scientist magazine's technology blog, June 15 entry.

Update: Galleries and videos from FIRA-2007 are now in their respective sections on this website.

The newest robots in our lab arrived today!

We were awarded a set of twenty Eco-Be robots by Citizen of Japan in a research competition. We are proud to be the only lab in Canada to be working with these robots, which are not yet commercially available. For those who didn't see them unveiled at RoboCup-2006 in Bremen, they are the world's smallest mobile robot. We'll be using them with the mixed-reality applications mentioned below, and for a wide array of multi-robot research projects. We'll also be participating in, and contributing toward the continuing development of, the Robocup Physical-Virtual League.

 

If you are coming here via the redirect from our old site, you may wish to update your bookmarks:  we are now at http://aalab.cs.umanitoba.ca.

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We will be competing at the FIRA HuroCup 2018 in Taiwan, in July 2018! Interested in becoming a sponsor? Please Contact us!

About Us

The Autonomous Agents Laboratory is one of the research laboratories within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba, and is directed by Dr. John Anderson and Dr. Jacky Baltes. The goal of our work is the improvement of technology surrounding hardware and software agents as well as the development of applications employing these technologies. We are especially interested in cooperation in multi-agent settings, and the infrastructure necessary to support this and other forms of social interaction in intelligent systems.

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