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The Dutch Nao Team was one of the 15 teams present at the opening ceremony of the World Human Robot Games in Beijing.

The Dutch Nao Team is active on the RCAP Beijing Masters, where several international teams have to prepare for a soccer competitions with a robot they is just released. So, this is a real hackaton where software have to be developed fast from scratch. The competition will be played in two of Beijing’s most iconic…

The RoboCup competition in Salvador, Brazil was not only special because of winning a match against the former world-champion RunSwift. It was also special because for this competition the robots had to be repaired by the teams themselves, so the Dutch Nao Team had to replace the gears in the knees with some of the…

The company Aldebaran was founded in 2005 by Bruno Maisonnier. From the beginnging they supported RoboCup competition in the Soccer and @Home league with their Nao and Pepper robots. Both robots can still be found in the Intelligent Robotics Lab. Unfortunatelly, their story has now come to an end. This is their farewell message:

For it’s leatest research, the University of Amsterdam has now a Franka Research 3 robot-arm to it’s disposal.

The Dutch Nao Team and the Intelligent Robotics Lab received a lot of enthousiastic visitors during the Science Day at Amsterdam Science Park. An impression:

The Intelligent Robotics Lab is embedded in the LAB42 community, which is a combination of education, companies and research. Nice to see the sponsor Zeta Alpha of the Dutch Nao Team listed together with the IRL. You can meet them all on the LAB42 Meet All page.

The UMI-RTX robot arm, which was originally designed in 1985 [1], is still up-and-running in the Intelligent Robotics Lab. For their internship from the École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne, Théo Massa and Guillaume Garde build a ROS2 interface which allows to control the robot, visualize its state and make use of a ZED-m depth-camera…

On July 17-21, 2024 the RoboCup will visit the Netherlands. The Symposium will be on Monday July 22.

The Dutch Nao Team participated in the World Championship of the RoboCup Standard Platform League with a team of 18 students. They participated in the Challenge Shield competition, scoring 27 goals (and receiving 15 against), which brought them to the semi-finals. In addition, they also participated in two technical challenges: the Data Minimalization and Visual…