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.
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... for 3D mapping and independent navigation using a map also earned the robot from Darmstadt the prize for the best outdoor robot. For other teams, the proximity to the buildings and the greenery made it almost impossible to position the robots using GPS.