The UvA robot football team whIRLwind has won first place at the first Italian Open RoboCup Humanoid Soccer Tournament in Rome on 28 October. The tournament had participants from Ireland, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. The whIRLwind team won all games, both in the preliminaries and finals. They played on a larger field than the training field in the Intelligent Robotics Lab, allowing to demonstrate their superior teamplay on a large field, including passes over the full width of the field, and scoring after such assist.
The RoboCup Italian Open was co-located with the European edition of the Maker Faire, and attracted more than 55,000 visitors interested in the latest technologies and Do It Yourself projects.