© Technische Universität Darmstadt

A total of 23 teams qualified for this year's RoboCup 2017 'Rescue League', including a single German team - the 'Hector' team from the Technical University of Darmstadt (pictured). In the main categories of maneuvering, agility, dexterity and exploration, the robots each had to face up to six different partial evaluations. The six runs per day placed high demands on the resilience of the robots and the teams. ...