RoboCup 2013 will be held in the Netherlands

Eindhoven will be the organization of the RoboCup 2013. The event, which in various category lwa n robotvoetbal is performed, will be of 24 to 30 June at a yet unknown location to take place.

Originally the Netherlands for RoboCup world CHAMPIONSHIPS 2014 candidate, but because Japan withdrew as an organizer for the 2013 edition, the event now by the RoboCup Federation assigned to the Netherlands. The exact location where the event will take place, has yet to be determined. The matches will in any case not on the grounds of the Technical University of Eindhoven to take place, reported the university newspaper (uk) Cursor.

The organisation of the world Championship RoboCup 2013, according to Tech United, the robotvoetbalteam of the Technical University of Eindhoven, a good opportunity to make the general public acquainted with the state of affairs in robotics. Moreover, on the event, approximately three thousand participants from forty countries. In the run-up to the world CHAMPIONSHIPS of 2013 will be from 25 to 29 april the RoboCup Dutch Open will be held.

At the RoboCup playing robots play a game of football against each other. There are various divisions in the robotvoetbal. In the small-size league is on a small field robotvoetbal played with a above the field, hanging camera, the robots of information provides. In the middle-size league the robots are partially autonomous, though there is sometimes ‘consulted’ about the team play, while in the humanoid league the robots have a human shape and the technology focused on the best possible technique.

The purpose of the RoboCup is to android robots to develop that in 2050, a human soccer team on the world cup defeat. In addition, the initiators want to the development of robotics improve by sharing knowledge.