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Bowdoin Hosts 2011 RoboCup US Open Championship April 22-24

Story posted April 19, 2011

Bowdoin's RoboCup team, the Northern Bites, will host the 2011 RoboCup U.S. Open for the Standard Platform League April 22-24 in the Sidney J. Watson Arena. View the schedule of events here. Admission is free and open to the public.

Visit the Northern Bites blog.

Participating teams:

AustinVilla, University of Texas at Austin
UPennalizers, University of Pennsylvania
Cmurfs, Carnegie Mellon University
WPI Warriors, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Northern Bites, Bowdoin College

The U.S. Open event is a preliminary (though not qualifying) event leading up to the RoboCup World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, this summer.

The event at Bowdoin features the Standard Platform League, comprising Aldebaran Nao humanoid robots playing autonomous four-on-four soccer for two 10-minute halves on a 5.4 x 7.4-meter field.

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