Thebookconcludeswithdescriptionsofmostofthemorethan80teams thatcompetedinRoboCup2000. Theseteamdescriptionsservetocatalogthe fullrangeofresearchersandapproachesthathavebeenappliedtothechallenges putforthbyRoboCup. ThenextinternationalRoboCupeventswillbeheldinSeattle, USA(2001) andinFukuoka, Japan(2002). InadditiontoallexistingRoboCupevents, they arescheduledtointroduce(i)RoboCup-Rescuedisasterrescuecompetitionsfor thetransferofideasandtechniquesdevelopedinthesoccerdomaintoarelated task, and(ii)ahumanoidrobotcompetitionasasteptowardsthelong-termgoal ofcreatingafullteamofhumanoidrobotsthatcompeteonarealsoccer?eld. Welookforwardtocontinuingresearchinnovationsandexcitingdemonstrations ofroboticsandAItechnologyintheseandotherfutureRoboCupevents. March2000 PeterStone, TuckerBalch, andGerhardKraetzschmar RoboCupFederation TheRoboCupFederation, thegoverningbodyofRoboCup, isaninternational organizationthatpromotesscienceandtechnologyusingsoccergamesbyrobots andsoftwareagents. President: HiroakiKitano, JapanScienceandTechnologyCorporation, Japan Vice-Presidents: MinoruAsada, OsakaUniversity, Japan EnricoPagello, UniversityofPadua, Italy ManuelaVeloso, CarnegieMellonUniversity, USA Trustees: Hans-DieterBurkhard, HumboldtUniversity, Germany SilviaCoradeschi, OrebroUniversity, Sweden DominiqueDuhaut, UniversityofSouthernBretagne, France FransGroen, UniversityofAmsterdam, TheNetherlands AndrewJennings, RoyalMelbourneInstituteofTechnology, Australia MilindTambe, UniversityofSouthernCalifornia, USA ExecutiveCommittee: TuckerBalch, CarnegieMellonUniversity, USA AndreasBirk, FreeUniversityofBrussels, Belgium MasahiroFujita, SonyCorp. , Japan GerhardKraetzschmar, UniversityofUlm, Germany PaulLevi, UniversityofStuttgart, Germany PedroLima, ISR/IST, TechnicalUniversityofLisbon, Portugal HenrikLund, UniversityofSouthernDenmark, Denmark DanieleNardi, UniversityofRome"LaSapienza", Italy ItsukiNoda, ETL, Japan DanielPolani, Lub ¿ eckUniversity, Germany Raul ¿ Rojas, UniversityofBerlin, Germany PeterStone, AT&TLabs-Research, , USA Sat