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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.

This year the RoboCup will be played on the fields of the teams all over the world. The Dutch Nao Team received two new Nao robots, which means that they have now finally a full team to play a RoboCup soccer game.

11 European robot soccer teams will participate in the RODEO event, an initiative of the Nao Devils to test 5v5 games with the additional RoboCup 2021 rules for robot safety. Each team will use its own field and robots, but also has the possibility to play against an opponent on the soccer field Robotics Research…

For three months Arnoud Visser will be a visiting research fellow at the Planetary Robotics Lab of ESTEC. He will work on datasets recorded by the Heavy Duty Planetary Rover developed in Noordwijk.

One of the students working at the Meaningful Control of Autonomous Systems project is participating in the AI Driving Olympics, which is a competition with the objective of evaluating the state of the art for ML/AI for embodied intelligence. The 5th edition is held in conjunction with NeurIPS 2020. For this challenge we apply the end-to-end…

Our robot Pepper has been participating in the start-of-construction event of the new Lab42 building, after a long summer of rehearsal. An short impression of the event can be found at this page. The live-stream can still be watched here.