FIRA RoboWorld Cup and Summit 2019

The Federation of International RoboSports Association invites new and old participants to the FIRA 2019 RoboWorld Cup and Summit in Changwon, Korea. The competition is to be held from 11th to 16th August 2019. FIRA is the oldest intelligent robot soccer competition and was founded by Prof. Jong-Hwan Kim, KAIST, Korea in 1996. FIRA focuses on three goals: (a) to provide challenging and motivating benchmark problems for state of the art research in intelligent robotics, (b) to give senior students with valuable skills and experiences that allow them to be productive and develop their careers in the new economy, and (c) to introduce junior students to the fundamentals of STEM topics (science, technology, engineering, and math).

The FIRA RoboWorld Cup includes competitions in the following leagues:

• FIRA AIR includes the use of autonomous flying vehicles in urban and disaster scenarios.

• FIRA Sports was the goal of developing robot athletes that can compete against humans in Olympic events

• FIRA Challenges focuses on complex challenges in industrial, rescue, and service robot settings

• FIRA Youth are competitions for our younger participants such as the mission impossible events

We also introduce a new set of challenges in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) with a specific focus on developing software

• FIRA AI is a new league that will explore developing software to solve problems in AI, ML, and robotics.

FIRA has experienced rapid growth in the last two years. The FIRA RoboWorld Cup 2018 in Taichung, Taiwan attracted more than 1,200 participants

Friendly competitions in the FIRA RoboWorld Cup give all participants a chance to make new friends and learn from each other.