B-Human wins Robocup World Cup 2024: Football with Robots.

Football German team wins Robocup World Cup 2024

2024-08-02 Source: University of Bremen | Translated by AI 1 min Reading Time

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Football is only for humans? Not in Eindhoven! There, the Robocup World Cup ended at the weekend with a clear winner.

The Bremen team scored 86 goals over the course of the tournament and only conceded one goal.(Image: Robocup/Bart van Overbeeke) — The Bremen team scored 86 goals over the course of the tournament and only conceded one goal.
(Image: Robocup/Bart van Overbeeke)

The B-Human team from the University of Bremen and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) won the Robocup World Cup 2024 in Eindhoven. According to a statement from the university, the team scored a total of 86 goals and only conceded one. The HTWK Robots team from Leipzig came in second place, Robo Éireann from Ireland in third.

The Robocup is one of the largest robot competitions worldwide. From July 17 to 21, 300 robot teams from 45 countries competed against each other. According to the university, the competition aims to promote the development of robots and their artificial intelligence, so that they are able to operate without direct human control.

In addition to the soccer discipline, teams can also compete in Robocup Rescue and Robocup at Home. Here, rescue scenarios are staged for the robots or problems in the household are presented as challenges. Within the Soccer League, there are five different sub-leagues that vary depending on the type of robot used, it continues. B-Human participated in the Standard Platform League: Here, all teams use the same type of robot with the same hardware. It is therefore primarily about skillful software development.

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