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RoboCupSoccer aiming towards the final goal, RoboCupRescue, a serious social application to the
rescue activities for any kinds of disasters, and RoboCupJunior, an international education-based
initiative designed to introduce young students to robotics.
The RoboCup 2005 competition was the largest scaled one since 1997. About 1800 team members of
340 teams from 31 nations and regions around world participated. Eventually, a total of 182,000
spectators witnessed this marvelous event. To the best of our knowledge, this was the largest robotic
event in history. Figure 2 shows a game of the humanoid league, 2 on 2 from RoboCup 2005 Osaka.
For more details, please refer to [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,12,13, 14, 15].

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Figure 1: The number of teams (left) and 2 on 2 game of the humanoid in RoboCup 2005

RoboCity CoRE : An inner city RT base
A basic concept of RoboCup are an international joint research, a landmark project: sharing the dream,
and open to different disciplines, open to public. Currently, the competition and conference is once a
year, and a natural extension of RoboCup concept is to have a permanent place to deploy our activities.
RoboCity CoRE (Center of RT Experiments) is an inner city labs for symbiotic experiments with
robots, new partners of our future life. CoRE aims at only one RT base around the world where
simultaneous progresses of research, industrialization, and education carry on simultaneously.

Open to public means that researchers, artists, companies, citizens interchange with each other to
emerge new ideas, that leads the development of science, technology, and culture. CoRE will be a new
cultural symbol of the future high-technological, ecological city.

CONCLUSION

The brief introduction of Robot World Cup Competition and Conference, in short, RoboCup is given.
The aims and the current activities are briefly introduced. Next, the idea of RoboCity CoRE, an inner
city RT base, is given as a RT experiment field open to public.