Author: robolab

Today the students from the Dutch Nao Team 3D printed an extensions that can be clipped on the Nao robot’s head. This extension allows us to track with high accuracy the robot with the Optitrack system. This gives us an independent measurement to compare the Nao’s internal localisation with an external reference.

Patrick Göttsch and Thomas Reinhardt pictured all the participating Nao robots at the RoboCup 2022 in Bangkok, which is now a showcase in IEEEE Spectrum’s Big Picture: https://spectrum.ieee.org/robocup-2022

The website is updated to the latest php-version, which also meant that we had to give the website a new-look and feel. The chosen theme is fairy inspired.

The Intelligent Robotics Lab has a new location: at the entrance of the LAB42 building. The Dutch Nao Team was one of the exciting experiences during the opening festival on September 22, 2022. Here are some impressions from the festival:

The Dutch Nao Team has arrived in Bangkok, Thailand to compete in the RoboCup World Championships. They play against 12 other teams. There progress in the competition can be followed at https://spl.robocup.org/results-2022.

Eight students of the Universiteit van Amsterdam will compete in the Battle of the Institutions at the Robotics Hackaton at the European Robotics Forum. They have to compete against teams from the Radboud University, RWTH Aachen, TU Delft, TU Twente, Saxion and Groningen University. The students from the UvA will work on the navigation challenge…

On the ground of our robolab a string of small Hexbot nano robots is tracked on their movement. This is part of a study of the Active & Living Matter group at the faculty.

This week the company Locus Robotics opened their European headquarters in Amsterdam, with demonstrations what their swarm of self-navigation robots could do in logistic settings. The developments in the RoboCup @work and Logistics league is would be great interest for this company.

Four of our Nao robots have a summer job, being standin for the robots in the screenplay ‘nooit meer werken’.

The Dutch Nao Team is ready for the upcoming games in the Standard Platform League. The Dutch Nao Team will participate in the Autonomous Calibration Challenge and 1vs1 Challenge. The first 1vs1 Challenge game will be against B-Human.