RomeCup, where innovation is rewritten by the youngest

Robot challenges , debates , educational workshops and contests with 4,000 students from all over Italy : the eighteenth edition of the RomeCup is a success, until May 9 , in the spaces of the University of Roma Tre and the Campidoglio, where the future of innovation and the relationship between human intelligence and artificial intelligence are discussed. "RomeCup is much more than an event: it is a platform of possibilities, an accelerator of trust, a living map of new educational needs and emerging social opportunities. It is the place where technology and humanity meet, not to compete, but to build together". Said Mirta Michilli, general director of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale. This edition was guided by questions about the future of the relationship between man and machine , a theme also at the center of the opening conference in which the president of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Gianluigi Greco, said that "we must train our ability to coexist with these technologies by developing a critical spirit. Ethics requires understanding the new world. Hard skills alone are not enough: we must exercise two essential skills , knowing how to ask questions and contextualize . Our linguistic skills are also fundamental : without them, we risk losing poetry . And we cannot afford to lose another even more precious skill: empathy". As always, the focus of RomeCup are the schools and the competitions between robots created by teams of girls and boys arriving from all over Italy, as well as training workshops, meetings with researchers, presentations of projects such as those of the Italian Institute of Technology or the AI-led sea rescue service developed by the startup HumanDroneTeam with the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa.