RoboCup World Championship 2017German robots impress in Japan
Soccer skills were on display at the RoboCup robotics competition in Japan at the end of July. At the forefront: the robots from the German university teams. They also showed how advanced they are technologically in the industrial, household and rescue disciplines.
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... It took a lot of brainpower to readjust the software that had been specially programmed over the past few months. This year's competition - based on the first and second Bundesliga - consisted of two sub-competitions: the 'Champions Cup' and the 'Challenge Shield'. There were also relegation matches, which gave the teams the chance to switch sub-competitions. In the demanding Champions Cup, all of the top three places in ...