RoboTeam Twente, one of the student teams of the University of Twente, will participate in the highest level robot football competition, the RoboCup 2020. Starting at the 23rd of June in Bordeaux, France, the team will try to become world champion in the Small Size League. This qualification means that Twente is once again represented in the highest division in this category.
World’s best
Qualification for the tournament means that the students from Twente belong to the best teams in the world. Casper de Regt, team manager of RoboTeam Twente, is enthusiastic: “The fact that we are qualified once again, shows that our innovations are of a high level. It also makes clear that The Netherlands and the region of Twente play an important and international role in the development of robotics and artificial intelligence.”
The RoboCup
The RoboCup is an international conference for robotics and artificial intelligence, where the World Championship for robot football takes place as well. The objective of the RoboCup is to create a team of humanoid robot football players that can win a football game against the human World Champion by 2050. In their league, RoboTeam Twente is joined by teams from Germany, Iran, Japan and China.
About RoboTeam Twente
RoboTeam Twente is an initiative of students of University of Twente and Saxion University of Applied Sciences, which focuses on building football robots and its software. The team consists of sixteen students from various studies, some of whom put their study on halt for one year, to completely focus on the development of the robots. RoboTeam Twente has achieved good results in the previous editions of the RoboCup, among which a 5th place in 2019.
