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.
Compared to the previous year's model, 'NimbRo-OP2x' had a faster on-board computer and a more powerful graphics card to speed up parallel calculations for its visual perception. The team from Bonn also successfully completed all the tests in the technical competitions with their two Nimbro robots: kicking the ball over an obstacle (pictured), converting a corner kick, keeping its balance in the event of a bump and high jump. With 26 points, 'NimbRo-OP2x' came out on top just ahead of the Chinese team 'Tsinghua Hephaestus' (25 points). Unlike in the Humanoid League, the ...