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Always good to have a professional fotographer in your lab, to give some impressions of the work in our lab. Here are two highlights. One human against 4 robots The robots are autonomous – all programs made in advance

As part of a tour around the Science Park, the Princess of Orange started in LAB42. The students of team whIRLwind Amsterdam had prepared a demonstration of a RoboCup soccer match for our Royal visit. A quick explanation of the techniques behind a soccer match for robots. The Princess of Orange was invited by the…

Now that multiple Dutch teams play inside the RoboCup Humanoid Soccer league, it was time to see farewell to the old Dutch Nao Team. Members from each year, from 2010 & beyond showed up. The team-photo was actual made later on the evening, so not all team-members present are on this last picture: The team…

The whIRLwind team participated for the first time in the RoboCup Humanoid Soccer league with the Booster K1 robot. Development of the code for the Booster K1 robots on the field. The whIRLwind team won the runner-up final of the Middle Division with 5-0 against the Ruhrbot Devils from the TU Dortmund University.

The team whIRLwind Amsterdam, formally know as the Dutch Nao Team, is soon to be qualified for the RoboCup competition in Incheon, Korea. The games will be held from June 30 to July 6, 2026. The team will particiate in the Humanoid Soccer League, which merged the Humanoid and Standard Platform League. whIRLwind will participate…

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.