Junior Dance League: Robots Plus Creativity

Walking through the hall of the Ice Skating Centre (the venue of the RoboCupJunior League), you can see fields for the Junior Rescue competition and tables with soccer fields all around you. But on Thursday afternoon, the focus lies on one thing only: the Junior Dance League, in which children…

RoboCup Tour: Amidst the Robots

Besides all the elements of show and games, RoboCup is a great opportunity to introduce robotics into the outside world. During the event, there are several organised tours for school pupils at the Major League.

The children are enthusiastic and very impressed by everything they see here. The soccer robots…

Start Middle Size League

On the first day of the tournament for the Middle Size League, one of the first games was between the world champions, Tech United Eindhoven, and IsePorto from Portugal. This game was planned to start at 9 AM, while Bitac from China and MRL from Iran would compete on the…

Behind the Scenes: Randstad-employee to the Rescue

On the evening of Tuesday, June 25, the first participants of the Junior League arrived at the Ice Skating Centre for registration. Most teams had no trouble during the registration process, but others were a bit less fortunate…

A team from Singapore arrived at the desk and were greeted by…

Opening Ceremony RoboCup 2013

The RoboCup 2013 World Championships have officially been opened this afternoon at 4 PM. In the tent, also home of the Robot Playground, a few words of welcome were said to the participants and visitors, and words of thanks to the sponsors for their support of the event.

After the…