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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... the robots in the second major RoboCup soccer league - the 'Standard Platform League' (SPL) - competed against each other in teams of five with the two-legged robot 'Nao' from Softbank Robotics. The teams could only tinker with the programming to progress. The aim was to react flexibly to the new rules of the game, such as the introduction of free kicks or ...