RWU's RoboLab team qualifies for the world championship

Every year, the world's largest robotics Olympics brings together representatives of the world's top robotics and artificial intelligence researchers to compete in a variety of robotics competitions. Originally a robot soccer tournament, RoboCup now has four leagues: Soccer, Rescue, @Home and Industry.

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Students from the master's program in computer science will compete with two service robots on site in the @Home league. Both robots, one of which was developed entirely in-house, are designed to relieve humans of simple everyday tasks such as bringing items. Apart from the domestic context, the autonomous assistants can also be used in nursing homes. There, they are intended to relieve the nursing staff so that they can concentrate on the professional care of the residents.

Now that the RoboLab team has qualified for the competition, the next challenge lies ahead: On competition day, they must present two complex robots that function flawlessly. What runs smoothly in a research context in a laboratory - a highly controllable environment - is all the more difficult in a competition context. But the RoboLab team can look back on many years of experience. For example, the team was able to take the "Best Poster Award RoboCup Virtual Worldcup 2021" as well as first place at the European Robotics League Oldenburg 2022.

Parallel to the competitions, the RoboCup Symposium will take place. A congress where new scientific findings from the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics will be exchanged.