NimbRo and B-Human, teams in technical partnership with igus, won the Humanoid League and the Regular League, respectively.

Last July, two German teams took home the trophy at the RoboCup World Championship 2017 in Nagoya, Japan.

RoboCup, with over 3,500 participants from over 40 countries, including Korea, is the most important international competition in robotics, serving as a bridge for testing new robotics technologies and sharing knowledge. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, RoboCup took place over four days, from July 27th to 31st, with competitions taking place across 17 different leagues.
The Nimbro team already won the RoboCup trophy in the Humanoid Football League last year. This year, staff and students from the University of Bonn's Autonomous Intelligent Systems department worked with the igus Humanoid Open Platform again.

igus's Open Platform was jointly developed by igus and the University of Bonn through a project funded by the German Research Foundation. Through the Robolink system, it provides cost-effective, modular robot kits for industry and research.

“The humanoid platform has undergone several updates this year,” said Professor Sven Behnke of the University Working Group. "We improved the robot's perception and stability, and in particular, we successfully optimized coordination by increasing the simultaneous operation from two to three. Thanks to this, we were able to win all of our games without conceding a single goal," he said.

The non-human team shined in the regular platform league this year as well, winning a total of six times. Laue, the team's leader, said, "While the robots from the University of Leipzig continued to create good chances, our players (robots) had a hard time adjusting to the new artificial turf. However, they secured a 2-1 victory with a strong defense and two successful shots."