Go NUbots! Go!
The University of Newcastle’s robotics team, recently competed in the International RoboCup competition in Eindhoven, Netherlands and were placed in the top 12.
RoboCup runs annually and hosts 2500 competitors from Universities across 40 countries.
The aim of the project is to build a soccer playing robot that looks like a human and can beat the human world soccer champions by 2050!
The Newcastle Robotics Laboratory is an interdisciplinary research initiative of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Statistics at The University of Newcastle, Australia. The team comprises of both undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and laboratory staff.
The Nubots have participated at RoboCup regularly since 2002. They competed in the RoboCup Four-Legged League 2002-2007 using Sony AIBO robots and won the Worldtitle at RoboCup 2006 in Bremen, Germany. They were placed second at the worldcups in 2005 and 2007, and third in 2004, 2003, and 2002.
In 2008 they won the worldtitle again in the RoboCup Standard Platform League using NAO robots as part of the NUManoid team. The NUbots are the 2011 Australian champions in the RoboCup Standard Platform League.
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