Robocup 2008 news archive

Today we saw also the offical opening, with a lot of influential local people and robocup officals. They all congratulated Robocup and Suzhou with the games taking place here.

This morning we were able to make TUlip stand stable! All 12 degrees of freedom can now be initalized normally. We will now continue on making the robot walk.

The plans for the Dutch Robotics team have changed slightly due to the robot not being complete. We are going to compete with TUlip as a goalkeeper for the "Dribble and Kick" competition and to use the Flame robot (see photo) to compete in the 'Footrace' technical challenge. The flightcase that was carrying Flame was damaged in transport, but all is well, the robot still walks as elegantly as ever. During the signing in of the robots and the testing of Flame's walking ability we drew quite a crowd.

Verslag van de eerste dagen door Philip.

In our very own workshop in the basement of the 3ME faculty, TU Delft, students from TU Delft, TU Eindhoven and UTwente come together to work on the assembly of the TULip soccer robots.

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In November 2007, students at the 3ME faculty of TU Delft started building the TUlip soccer robots, which will be playing in the Robocup Challenge in july 2008 in Suzhou, China. They were joined in December by colleagues of TU Eindhoven and UTwente. In the one and a half year preceding the build, the students have been working on the behaviour analysis, concept design and integral design of the soccer robots. Three robots are built, one for each participating university in the Dutch Robotics initiative to work with.

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TULip's body consists of black anodized aluminium components. The use of alminium makes the robot very lightweight.

Click here to see the fabrication of one of these parts.

DutchRobotics.net is an initiative by TU Delft, TU Eindhoven, UTwente and Philips to create a teen size humanoid robot. The robot will compete at RoboCup Soccer 2008, held in the summer of 2008 in Suzhou, China. Subscribe to the rss feed below to follow the developments.