Federation International of Robosoccer Association, FIRA Executive Committee has announced that the host city for 17th FIRA RoboWorldCoup 2012 will be Bristol, UK. The event will take place August 20-25, just after the Olympic Games, at the Bristol Robotics Lab (BRL), the largest multi-disciplinary robotics facility in the UK with an international reputation in advanced robotics research. BRL is a collaboration between the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England. BRL is . The event will be combined with the UK’s robotics conference “Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems” (TAROS), the annual premier event for UK roboticists.
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The 16th FIRA RoboWorldCoup 2011 will take place in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, August 27-30, 2011.
FIRA robot soccer began in 1995 and the first international championship was held at KAIST, Daejeon, Korea in 1996. FIRA was founded in June 1997 with a basic goal of taking the spirit of science and technology of robotics to the laymen and the younger generation, through the game of robot soccer.
