The 2000 AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition

Unlike and Exhibition, held 30 July to 3 other contests over the years, there were no August 2000 in Austin, Texas. This year's event artificial walls or constraints in this brought six contest teams and nine exhibition event--the robots had to interact with regular teams from the United States and Canada. Robots were judged on to compete and demonstrate state-ofthe-art the quality of their interactions, coverage, research in robotics and AI (figure 1). An article by the winning team, The competition and exhibition is actually which better describes their approach and made up of multiple events: several contests, a robot, can be found in this issue of AI Magazine. Kortenkamp, Nourbakhsh, and Hinkle (1997); In January 2000, a suggestion was made to Arkin (1998); and Meeden et al. (2000).