Lesser-Known Leagues: Festo Logistics and RoboCup@Work

In addition to the well-known soccer, care and rescue robots, there are also robots at RoboCup competing in less known competitions. Two of these competitions are the RoboCup@Work League, with teams searching for applications for robots in work environments (in some respects, it is comparable with the RoboCup…

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…

Tonight in the RoboCup Talkshow: @Home League

The very first broadcast of the RoboCup talkshow of Wednesday was such a success, that host Lieven Scheire and initiator and commentator Guy decided to invite new guests to discuss the past day and look forward to the day of tomorrow. Tonight they will talk about the @Home League and…

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…