Impressions from the RoboCup World Championship 2018

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400 teams from 35 countries around the world flew to eastern Canada with their robots at the end of June 2018. Their destination: the Convention Center (pictured) in Montréal. This was the venue for the 22nd round of the international robotics competition RoboCup. The teams of students and scientists competed against each other in the disciplines of 'Soccer' (soccer), 'Rescue' (rescue operations), 'Home' (service robotics) and 'Industrial' (industrial production). In line with the goal of using autonomous robots to compete against the reigning human FIFA World Cup champion in soccer in 2050, there is a clear focus on the soccer discipline: in the ...