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Arnoud Visser had an interview on the Dutch radio on the effect of cuteness in human-robot interactions. Part of the discussion was on the Japanese cuteness Kawaii, partly on what will the boundary between man and human in the future.

The University of Amsterdam went with two teams to the RoboCup in Nagoya. One team was the Dutch Nao Team (since 2010) in the Soccer Standard Platform League; new was our UvA@Home team in the Social Standard Platform League. Both teams had a short time to prepare for the competition, were able to serious compete,…

Caitlin and Michiel made it to the cover of the Amsterdam Science magazine, issue #5. On the Spotlight page they give a short summary of their approach, as published at the IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions 2016.

The Dutch Nao Team has won the Open Challenge with a presentation about their Behavior Engine:

The Dutch Nao Team has a though start of the tournament in Tehran; they have to play against HWTK from Leipzig, which was a semi-finalist at the last world-cup. So the DNT directly has to show the progress that they have made. Also read at the HWTK-blogspot the adventures of the team-leader Rico on his…

The Dutch Nao Team is preparing for their trip to Tehran, Iran. The competition will take place from April 5-7. They will play against seven other teams from Iran, Germany and Mexico. An update of their experiences can be found at the Dutch Nao Team website.

The Dutch Nao Team is one of the 24 teams (worldwide) which qualified for the competition at the RoboCup 2017 in Nagoya, Japan. The Toyota Partner robot celebrating

The proposal of the UvA@Home team made it possible that the University of Amsterdam could buy next year a Pepper robot for a reduced price.

The Intelligent Robotics Lab has now two teams that submitted already their qualification material for the RoboCup 2017 in Nagoya, Japan. The Dutch Nao Team has submitted its qualification video: In addition, both the UvA @Home team and the Dutch Nao Team submitted a 6-page paper describing their approach: UvA@Home 2017 Standard Platform Proposal &…

The Dutch Nao Team won the BNAIC  SKBS Best Demo Award at the 28th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence: