We are from the Artificial Intelligence Research Group in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia (phew!). This is the second year that we have participated in Robocup. Last year we were part of the first ever Sony Legged League competition. The core team members were two final year Computer Engineering students, John Dalgliesh and Mike Lawther. Despite having only a few short months to work with the robots, they won the Robocup Challenge goal kicking event outright, and placed second in the main tournament. For Robocup 2000, the team makeup has changed quite a bit. Mike and John are no longer core team members, as they have finished their undergraduate courses (with John winning the University Medal) and are now running around loose in the Real World(tm). The core team has expanded to three people, and is now in the capable hands of Bernhard Hengst, Son Bao Pham, and Darren Ibbotson. The core team has been working very hard since late last year to implement new ideas and strategies for the team. They have been able to implement their own actions for the robots, which is an impressive achievement. The team has cooperated on pretty much every aspect of the development. When it came time to design a world model for the robots, they each went away and designed their own one. They then came together and discussed the ideas that they had, and the best ideas went into the final version. The same was done for the strategies as well. As development matured, each team member ended up taking main responsibility for the code that they had developed. Bernhard did most of the work on the walk, Son wrote the attackers, and Darren worked on the goalie. However, it was very much a team effort, with all the guys making contributions to every main part of the code. Professor Claude Sammut, who is Head of the AI Group at CSE is still our fearless leader. Claude is always an enthusiastic team manager, and will doubtless be heard cheering the team on in this years match videos again :) The team's technical supervisor (or physio :) ) is Phil Preston. Last year his role expanded to making sure that John and Mike managed to eat and sleep every now and again during the sixteen hour days of the tournament. Phil is unfortunately unable to come to the competition this year, but hopefully the team will not die of exhaustion or starvation in his absence. There is of course still enthusiastic support coming from other students in the AI Group. It seems the novelty of having such cool robots around has not yet worn thin :)