Robotics competitionRoboCup 2017 season opens
The robotics competition 'RoboCup' has entered a new round. Registration for the German preliminary round - the 'RoboCup German Open' - has been open since mid-October. Those who qualify for the RoboCup Junior Final will compete at the RoboCup World Championship 2017 in Japan.
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... of robots was on show in the 'Amazon Picking Challenge', which took place for the first time during a RoboCup. 16 university teams from all over the world competed with their own designs. Their robots' sensors had to recognize objects of different sizes and sometimes transparent and shiny surface structures. In the 'Stow' competition category, the robots had to load a shelf with certain products from a box under time pressure. In the ...