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's @Home league focuses on the use of service robots and their interaction with humans in a residential environment. Following the introduction of the two new standard platform leagues last year, these are now well established: In Montréal, the 'Social Standard Platform League' (SSPL) and the 'Domestic Standard Platform League' (DSPL), each with nine participating teams, were more crowded than the open league - the 'Open Standard League' (OPL). The SSPL uses the robot 'Pepper' from Softbank Robotics (pictured), the ...