Intelligent Robotics Lab

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  • Nooit meer werken

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

  • The RoboCup 2021 has started

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    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.

  • New Nao robots for Dutch Nao Team

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    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.

  • Dutch Nao Team will participate in RODEO

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    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…

  • Going to Space

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    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.

  • The AI Driving Olympics

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    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…

  • Start of construction of new robotics lab

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    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.

  • Willie Wartaal in the lab

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    There can also music be found at our university. To work on their contribution for the AI song festival, the rapper Willie Wartaal visited the Intelligent Robotics Lab. You can read about the creative process (and listen to the song) on the page of team Can AI Kick It.

  • New Segway robot Loomo in the lab

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    The collection of robots in the Intelligent Robotics Lab is extended with a Segway Loomo, which we will use to build a new version of the Nvidia Carter robot.

  • Trimbot 2020 video

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    The EU Horizon 2020 programma Trimbot is in its final stage. The program made a video which summerizes the contributions of the partners. A summary of the project and the UvA contribution is published at the faculty’s newssite.