RMRC Teams Announced for RoboCup 2025!

[Archer Losely]

Hi all!

Thanks to everyone who submitted their Team Participation Forms (TPFs) by the deadline of last Friday! 

Right now we have 6 teams who have expressed interest: 

CLOUD (Mexico)
Creative Town (China)
Mechatronics Rescue Team (Slovenia)
Team Bento (Germany)
Willi-Bots (Germany)
BethesdaBotics (USA)

If you don't see your team name on the list, and you did submit your form expressing interest, please feel free to reach out so we can correct that. We don't want to penalize anyone due to a Google Forms tech issue!

Depending on available space and performance in regional opens, we also may be welcoming additional teams who didn't submit a TPF, but otherwise qualify to compete with us at this year's competition.

We have also updated the website and have uploaded some more past TDMs. Please have a look at https://rrl-rmrc.org to learn about how other teams have solved these problems and build on each others' work. As we are welcoming new teams, and may be welcoming more new competitors, please remember that RMRC is not a typical competition; we are all working together against the application to further rescue robot science!

In the spirit of Open Source Competition, learn from each other, share with each other, and take the (in-person competition!) opportunity to network and meet fellow geeks and nerds from around the world who also share your passion for robot rescue. 

One never knows what the future will bring!

Good luck and Good Science!

-Archer

[Raymond Sheh]

Hi All,

Thanks Archer, and great to see all the teams who have already expressed interest!

Just a reminder that the Qualification Team Description Materials (TDM) are due on Friday the 28th of March (in a little over 2 weeks time). Please submit this to the mailing list according to the instructions on the website at https://rrl-rmrc.org [1]. 

The Qualification TDM is just to tell us what you have done and what you plan to do so it's perfectly fine if lots of things are "We think we will do XYZ"! It only needs to be a few pages long and is submitted by emailing it to this mailing list. Have a look at the archives of this mailing list around March/April of each year to see examples of what other teams have submitted.

You will also submit an Updated TDM on Tuesday the 1st of July (2 weeks before the competition) to tell us what you have done and to teach other teams how to do something cool. That will probably be a much longer document but we don't need that right now. (Look in the archives around June/July of each year or at https://rrl-rmrc.org for examples of those.)

As always, please do send email to this list if you have any questions or anything you would like to share! We also encourage new folks and teams to introduce themselves so we can all get to know each other prior to meeting at the competition.

Cheers!

- Raymond

[1] The direct link to the rulebook is currently https://oarkit.intelligentrobots.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/RoboCupRescue-RMRC-2024-Rulebook-working-draft-2023-10-15.pdf (as of right now it hasn't changed since the late 2023 update) but use the main website link if you're reading an archived version of this email!

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[Marcus Jaiclin]

I just want to send a HUGE shout-out to Raymond and Archer: Thank you for your dedication to making RMRC happen year after year!  RMRC would not be continuing to happen without your support.

Thank you!

Marcus Jaiclin

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