VDL Robot Sports

Here you’ll find new and noteworthy items about our team.

Festival Nacional de Robótica 2019 - Looking back

Our robots have just come back from an intensive and exhausting tournament at the Festival Nacional de Robótica 2019. Now unpacking, checking whether everything is okay and performing the first tests after the long trip.

Besides an intensive and exhausting tournament with very long days, we had interesting, learning but also funny moments. Now it is time to look back and think what can we change for future games. Are the robots gonna be upgraded? Are there gonna be new built from scratch robots? Keep an eye closed on us to get an answer to all these questions and more! Or even better, join us on this challenge to get the robots faster and smarter!

Festival Nacional de Robótica 2019 - Poster

Watching one or our matches during Festival Nacional de Robótica 2019 :-D

Festival Nacional de Robótica 2019

This year we will showcast our newest developments during the Festival Nacional de Robótica 2019 tournament. The event will take place in Gondomar, Portugal, from the 24th to 28th April. Follow us on Facebook and stay up to date!

2 robots passing the ball...

Every year the rules for playing on the RoboCup MSL competition slightly change in order to make a more competitive, creative and challenging game towards 2050... In 2050 the RoboCup team winner would play against the World Cup champion!

One of these rules says that in order to score a goal, there should be a pass between two robots of the same team. Here we can see the robots training a bit :D

Our robots are becoming "superstars"... They were on TV! :-D

Our robots were on the Dutch television (NPO2) on a program about technology (and football robots ;-) ) in The Netherlands and more precisely in (the region) Eindhoven! So proud of them! :-)
This Dutch program, "Stand van het Land", could be watch on the 8th October 2017 on channel NPO2.

Check the fragment of the video out!

Our first goal during the Robocup European Open 2016

Time for an update!

It has been already a while since the Robocup European Open 2016 at the Evoluon in Eindhoven closed its doors... During the competition we learned a lot of things, we did some robot behavior and ball-handling improvements, we found bugs (real) bugs and we also solve them! :)
Look at the top-centre of the snapshot... This snapshot was taken during a match by our vision system in the goal-keeper robot and the bug was detected as an obstacle! :D

And last but not least... We scored our first goal with our new generation robots! We lost the game but at the same time we are really proud of this milestone!

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