Incheon, Day 2

Day 1 of the Competition

Well, now it’s getting serious—the first runs are about to start. In the first two runs, there were a few problems collecting the balls—at first, they wouldn’t go into the collection arm, and then in the next run, the mechanism that’s supposed to push the balls back out of the arm got stuck... But after the lunch break, things finally clicked— 100% success twice in a row! That’s pretty impressive.

After that, we finally had some time to wander around the Majors—the humanoid soccer robots are getting wilder and wilder every year... We got to make new friends right away with an RMRC (Rapidly Manufactured Robot Challenge) team. We showed them around the Junior Area first, since they’d never been there before. Shortly after, the scores were released. We’re currently in second place, halfway through the runs. Of course, this is just an incentive to work even harder, which is why we headed “home” to keep coding—and that’s exactly what we did after dinner. Right now, we’re sitting in our hotel room: I’m writing this report, Samed is catching up on some sleep, and Moritz is busy testing.

And here’s the video.

The Japanese and German teams are in high spirits.