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As described in our team description paper, Luis Gustavo Nardin, Sebastian Castro and I will develop a workshop on how different machine learning techniques could be applied in the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League. We will do that during the RoboCup German Open 2018 in Magdenburg. For more details on the Machine Learning capabilities of Matlab,…

The Dutch Nao Team is qualified as one of the  24 teams worldwide to compete in the RoboCup Soccer Standard  Platform League. The list of competitors can be found at the RoboCup website.

Today the Dutch Nao Team published their qualification material: the Team Qualification Document and a Qualification video:  

The Dutch Nao Team visited for the 3rd time the Robotic Hamburg Open Workshop, organized by team HULKS from Technischen Universität Hamburg.

To perform rapid prototyping with machine learning libraries, which need more computing power than regular laptop’s and robot’s can provide, a new Machine Learning Machine is introduced to the lab. This machine not only has a good CPU, but also a good GPU. More details on this workstation can be found at github.

Arnoud Visser had an interview on the Dutch radio on the effect of cuteness in human-robot interactions. Part of the discussion was on the Japanese cuteness Kawaii, partly on what will the boundary between man and human in the future.

The University of Amsterdam went with two teams to the RoboCup in Nagoya. One team was the Dutch Nao Team (since 2010) in the Soccer Standard Platform League; new was our UvA@Home team in the Social Standard Platform League. Both teams had a short time to prepare for the competition, were able to serious compete,…

Caitlin and Michiel made it to the cover of the Amsterdam Science magazine, issue #5. On the Spotlight page they give a short summary of their approach, as published at the IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions 2016.

The Dutch Nao Team has won the Open Challenge with a presentation about their Behavior Engine:

The Dutch Nao Team has a though start of the tournament in Tehran; they have to play against HWTK from Leipzig, which was a semi-finalist at the last world-cup. So the DNT directly has to show the progress that they have made. Also read at the HWTK-blogspot the adventures of the team-leader Rico on his…