Based on the reviewers' evaluation, three papers were selected as finalists for "Best Paper":

Juan José Alcaraz-Jiménez, Marcell Missura, Humberto Martínez-Barberá and Sven Behnke - Lateral Disturbance Rejection for the Nao Robot

Yuji Kawai, Jihoon Park, Takato Horii, Yuji Oshima, Kazuaki Tanaka, Hiroki Mori, Takashi Takuma, Minoru Asada and Yukie Nagai - Throwing Skill Optimization through Synchronization and Desynchronization of Degree of Freedom

Peter Anderson, Yongki Yusmanthia, Bernhard Hengst and Arcot Sowmya - Robot Localization Using Natural Landmarks

According to the presentation at the symposium, a committee of RoboCup Trustees selected the following paper as the Best Paper of RoboCup Symposium 2012:

Lateral Disturbance Rejection for the Nao Robot

by:

* Juan José Alcaraz-Jiménez, University of Murcia
* Marcell Missura, University of Bonn
* Humberto Martínez-Barberá, University of Murcia
* Sven Behnke, University of Bonn