Last monday we traveled back from Suzhou. Unfortunately the robots have been delayed by the customs inspection, so we haven’t been able to continue working on them. Visiting the RoboCup 2008 has been a great experience, and I think it was certainly worth it to have 18 people working very committed on the completion ofRead more

Days fly past here. We managed to get the second robot (twente-TUlip or just TUlip2) working right in time. Just minutes after we did its first complete test (standing still) the delft-TUlip (TUlip1) broke one of its optical encoders for hip angle measurement. So tomorrow we’ll have to use the TUlip2 robot for the goal-keepingRead more

Today started with a lot of work on our robots. To be honest, they were not completely working when they got here, and due to transport and other circumstances, besides the ’scheduled work’ there is a lot more to solve, repair, invent, design and build. Besides the dealings with our own two robots, there isRead more

With the team ‘Dutch Robotics‘ the three technical universities are going to participate in the RoboCup 2008. After a long flight we arrived in Shanghai today, and took an almost equally long coach-trip to Suzhou, where the contest is being held. We are hopping from air-conditioned bus to air-conditioned hotel room, which is just asRead more