Here the results of the championship so far.These are not the official results (which are supposed to appear here in the future). Errors might exist, especially as the plugin we use for displaying the results is a little tricky.

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Today is the first setup-day, not only for us but also for the competition hall itself. Around us there is a lot of sawing, painting and even welding.  For us of bigger interest than the interior and flower-decoration: We do have electrical power, finished game-fields,  and a little internet.  All luggage arrived safely and neither robot nor human was hurt.

Our basic setup is done and we are now busy testing. Not least because of the effort the translators put up for us everything is going well so far.

On Wednesday, February, 25th, 2015 you will find us again at the Hamburg University day. Prospective students and interested people can visit us and our robots from 9 am to 4 pm at the entrance hall of the chemistry department (Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6).

By now there are also some videos and articles about us in the media landscape. A cool short video about us was made by our “Fanzine” Substanz.
Link to the corresponding site at Substanz. (Unfortunately both, video and article, are only available in German)

Substanz also made a report about the final game of the two RoHOW organizators — Hamburg Bit-Bots vs. Hulks. Link to the article. (again only in German, sorry!)

Additionally Spiegel TV Wissen covered the German Open in a report of which we are part of. It contains a few small mistakes, e.g. incorrectly assigned names and mixed up prices for robots, but in spite of everything the report is still a good one.

(Unfortunately in German again)

The teams which qualified for the World Championships 2015 in China were just announced. We belong to these and will of course take part!

You can find a great overview of the participating teams on the official website. It includes the well worth seeing application videos, the TDPs (Team Description Paper) and technical information about the robots used. Everyone interested in the contest can get a good picture about the participating teams. If you plan to found your own team, especially take a look at the TDPs! (Since some time we are pleased to get requests from people all over the world who want to get into robotics and specifically into Robocup.)

You will find our own application video for season 2015 at the bottom of this article. Besides the part showing compulsory skills, which is required  for qualification, our video additionally contains scenes showing the state of our current research.

The application video was used for the application to the Iranian championships 2015 too, for which we are qualified (but still waiting for the acceptance of our traveling costs by the Iran). For the German championships no video showing our robots’ skills was required, but a TDP.

Enjoy watching!

The “ZJU Dancer” from China play against the “CIT Brains” from Japan to reach the third place at the RoboCup2013.

The livestream will start shortly before the match and is about one minute delayed:

Saturday was also the day where the technical challenges took place.
The TC are about mastering situations that usually don’t appear in regular gaming right now but are wished to be observed during future competitions. To encourage the teams to develop these new techniques additional points are granted for the teams who manage to beat the challenges.

The Teams could attempt the following TC:

• The Throw-In where a ball is to be found, picked up, and thrown over the head as close as possible to a black pylon
• The Dribbling, where a ball has to be manoeuvred around some obstacles in order to score a ball.
• The High-Kick, where the goal is to get a ball as high as possible above the goal-line.
• And the Double-Pass, where two robots have to pass the ball in a certain succession around pylons.

The difficulty for the robots is not to be underestimated and as a result only very few teams managed to beat some of the challenges. During the Throw-In and High-Kick it was really hard to find the correct position around the ball. Especially hard seemed to be the Dribbling, as almost never the route through the obstacles was found.

As requested: Here are the results of the quarter-finals.

Team Darwin	vs	MRL-HSL	8	:	‘2
EROS	vs.	AUTMan	1	:	3
ZJUDancer	vs.	Hanuman KMUTT	6	:	1
Berlin United – FUmanoids	vs.	CIT Brains Kid	0	:	7

You will find official results at www.robocup-2013.org/humanoid-kid-size-results – however we are faster with the quarter-final results.