{"309061":{"#nid":"309061","#data":{"type":"news","title":"World Cup Fans Prepare: The Robots Are Headed Your Way!","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMembers of Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robojackets.org\/\u0022\u003ERoboJackets\u003C\/a\u003E are headed to Brazil to prepare for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robocup2014.org\/\u0022\u003ERoboCup 2014\u003C\/a\u003E competition, where they will join 26 other teams in the northeastern coastal town of Jo\u00e3o Pessoa to compete in the Soccer Small Size League tournament.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe RoboCup \u201cplayers\u201d range in design from life-size humanoids to wheeled robots roughly the size of soccer balls. They will compete in five divisions on miniature indoor fields. The tournament runs from July 21-24, with the preceding weekend allotted for setup, testing, and\u0026nbsp;an opening ceremony on Sunday. The event concludes on July 25 with an all-day symposium for adult participants and a workshop on educational robotics for RoboCup junior leagues.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech plans to compete in the Soccer Small Size League tournament using small, boxy robots with omnidirectional wheels. RoboJackets Vice President Lindsey Langstaff, an undergraduate student majoring in mechanical engineering, says she looks forward to working with other teams to help further research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou want to be able to bring something to the table that nobody\u2019s come up with yet,\u201d she says.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOrganizers make the game tougher each year by changing parameters like field size or number of players. Next year, RoboCup co-chairman Alexandre da Silva Simoes, says, the robots might play outside.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoboJackets is a diverse group of students, faculty, and alumni that aims to enhance the understanding of the field of robotics and its applications and increase the number of students exposed to robotics. They compete annually in five different robotics tournaments, serve as tour guides during the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInstitute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines\u003C\/a\u003E\u2019 annual \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/nationalroboticsweek.org\/\u0022\u003ENational Robotics Week\u003C\/a\u003E open house, and coordinate the regional\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.robojackets.org\/first-kickoff\/\u0022\u003EFIRST Robotics Competition annual kickoff\u003C\/a\u003E event.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA week after the World Cup title game in Rio de Janeiro, teams from 45 countries will face off at RoboCup\u0026nbsp;about 1,200 miles away in the Brazilian coastal town of Jo\u00e3o Pessoa.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"RoboJackets Head to Brazil for RoboCup 2014"}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-07-16 20:54:34","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:45","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"309561":{"id":"309561","type":"image","title":"RoboCup 2014","body":null,"created":"1449244726","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:58:46","changed":"1475895020","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:20","alt":"RoboCup 2014","file":{"fid":"199825","name":"robcup-banner.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robcup-banner_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robcup-banner_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":170595,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/robcup-banner_0.jpg?itok=57ihEVmH"}},"309581":{"id":"309581","type":"image","title":"RoboJackets RoboCup 2014 Team","body":null,"created":"1449244726","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:58:46","changed":"1475895020","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:20","alt":"RoboJackets RoboCup 2014 Team","file":{"fid":"199827","name":"robocup2014-team.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robocup2014-team_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robocup2014-team_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":59593,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/robocup2014-team_0.jpg?itok=9hGbGzqc"}},"309571":{"id":"309571","type":"image","title":"RoboJackets Vice President Lindsey Langstaff (left)","body":null,"created":"1449244726","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:58:46","changed":"1475895020","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:20","alt":"RoboJackets Vice President Lindsey Langstaff (left)","file":{"fid":"199826","name":"lindsey-langstaff.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lindsey-langstaff_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lindsey-langstaff_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":35540,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/lindsey-langstaff_0.jpg?itok=44GpjSaZ"}}},"media_ids":["309561","309581","309571"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.robojackets.org\/","title":"RoboJackets\u2019 Website"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.robocup2014.org\/","title":"RoboCup2014"},{"url":"http:\/\/robotics.gatech.edu\/","title":"Center for Robotics \u0026 Intelligent Machines"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"2353","name":"robocup"},{"id":"11489","name":"RoboJackets"},{"id":"1356","name":"robot"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"},{"id":"167723","name":"soccer"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJosie Giles\u003Cbr \/\u003EIRIM Marketing Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:josie@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejosie@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}