RoboCup World Championship 2018Germany is the soccer world champion!
If not in Russia, then in Canada: robots from German universities recently beat the international competition in soccer at the RoboCup World Cup. But the robotics competition in Montréal was not just about soccer. A look back.
... 'RoboCup Industrial', for example, the robotics competition pursues visionary Industry 4.0 scenarios: in the '@Work' league - a sub-discipline of the Industrial league - the robots had to independently master transportation tasks. They had to transport components such as screws, nuts and housings within an abstract production area. The teams developed algorithms for their robots that are necessary for autonomous navigation in the arena and for gripping and placing the objects in a targeted manner. Particularly clever ...