Soccer Robots accelerate Autonomous Driving and Medical Surgery

China, Hefei, juli 2015. 
Wereldkampioenschappen RoboCup 2015 met team Tech United van de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Match Tech United - Hibikino-Musashi. 
foto: TU Eindhoven / Bart van Overbeeke

The TU Eindhoven soccer robot team will be defending its world title from 27 to 30 July at the RoboCup in Nagoya, Japan.

Yet this is not only about games and sports competition, it is also pushing the frontiers of innovation in autonomous driving and medical surgery.
Radio4Brainport interviews a big fan of the Robocup and the Tech United team from Eindhoven: Prof. Maarten Steinbuch.

RoboCup is the world championschip for intelligent robots in different disciplines, with almost 4000 participants from 40 countries. If Tech United gets to the final, it will be the tenth time in a row. And if the fully autonomous Eindhoven soccer robots win, it will be their fourth world title. In the ‘help-at-home’ category, the TU/e team hopes its robots will be able to bring home a first world title after second and third places at previous tournaments.

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Prof. Maarten Steinbuch te gast in Studio Brainport

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Studio Brainport is a weekly program in Dutch that we co-create with Studio040. An English version can be heard in the programs of radio4brainport.org

 

In de aflevering van deze week was Prof. Maarten Steinbuch te gast. Hij kijkt vooruit over hoe we in de toekomst kunnen leren als je technische feitenkennis rechtstreeks naar ons brein kunt oploaden. Kun je dan inzicht en inventiviteit meteen ook meegeven of blijft het leggen van verbanden tussen feiten en technieken toch een kwestie van eigen ervaring en een echte menselijke gave?

Op Soundcloud hoor je de verkorte podcast versie, met de muziek eruit geknipt.

 

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