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The AAAI/RoboCup Robot Rescue event is designed to push researchers to design robotic systems for urban search and rescue. The rules were written to approximate a real rescue situation in a simulated environment constructed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The year 2001 was the first year that the rescue event was part of RoboCup, and the second year that the event was held as part of the AAAI Robot Competition. The joint rules committee from RoboCup and AAAI brought two communities together to develop the rules and scoring method. There were four registered teams in the competition: (1) Sharif University, (2) Swarthmore College, (3) Utah State University, and (4) the University of Edinburgh.