This year’s RoboCup, the world championship series for
intelligent robots, will be held from 26 - 30 June in Eindhoven (the
Netherlands). The competition expects around 2500 contestants from around 40
countries, competing with their rescue robots, service robots, dancing robots
and of course soccer robots. Teams from the USA, Germany, Thailand, Japan, Iran
and the Netherlands will defend their World Cup titles which they won in 2012
in Mexico City. The aim of RoboCup is to speed the development of reliable,
low-cost robot technology to serve our ageing society.