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RoboCup 2019 In Sydney Will Be World’s Biggest Annual Competitive Robotics Event

Two thousand researchers and innovators from 50 nations will join together in Sydney, Australia June 2019 for the world’s biggest annual robotics event: the RoboCup. Business Events Sydney (BESydney) secured the event in their home city with the highest bid along with University of New South Wales (UNSW) and RoboCup Junior Australia. Researchers and innovators will gather at the event to compete for one of the RoboCup world trophies.

“This is the ‘space race’ of robotics,” said professor Maurice Pagnucco, deputy dean (Education) in Engineering and head of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW, and regarded as an expert in artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics.