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04/26/2023 | Pressemitteilung

German RoboCup Junior Championship in Kassel

Robots playing soccer or putting on a show in disguise: This coming weekend, the finals of the German RoboCup Junior Championship will take place in Kassel. More than 560 students will pit their self-built robots against each other in various competitions. The organizer is the Department of Electrical Engineering/Computer Science at the University of Kassel. All competitions are open to the public and free of charge for visitors.

Image: University of Kassel.
Impressions of the 2022 edition.

For the first time, the championship will not be held at the department's location, but in exhibition halls 3 and 4 (Damaschkestraße 55) from Friday, 28. 4. to Sunday, 30. 4.

The event will begin at 9 a.m. each day.

202 teams will travel from all over Germany, consisting of 562 students aged 11 to 19, who will compete in three different disciplines:

OnStage: In this interactive show, artfully disguised robots perform a two-minute stage play in interaction with the students.

Soccer: Robot teams compete against each other in soccer. Everything is represented, from "simple" Lego robots to high-tech self-built robots.

Rescue: Here, the goal is to send "rescue robots" into a house in danger of collapsing to search for people.

The students came out on top in eight regional qualifying tournaments and now get to compete not only for the German championship, but at the same time for participation in the European championship (June 7-10, 2023, in Varzdin, Croatia) and the world championship (July 4-9, 2023, in Bordeaux, France).

Most of the students have prepared for the competition in robotics workshops at their schools with the support of their teachers. To do this, they have designed robots themselves and built them mostly with Fischertechnik or Lego. Often the robot is controlled with an Arduino microcontroller.

The CDW Foundation and Micro-Epsilon are the main sponsors. Other sponsors are: Kuka, VDI, Phoenix-Contact, Städtische Werke Kassel, Regionalmanagement Nordhessen, IT Netzwerk e.V., MoWi.net, Universitätsgesellschaft Kassel e.V., Harting, BBW Nordhessen and Octavia.

On Friday at 9 a.m. the opening ceremony with Prof. Dr. Ute Clement, President of the University of Kassel, will take place, the competitions start at 10 a.m. and go until about 5.30 p.m.. On Saturday and Sunday, the competitions will start at 9 a.m. and run until about 5:30 p.m. (Saturday) and about 12 p.m. (Sunday). The awards ceremony will then begin at 2 p.m.

The entire program and further information at: https://robocupjunior.de/german-open/