RoboCup Competition 2024

We have just finished another great RoboCup in Eindhoven, Netherlands, 11 years since Bold Hearts first competed with humanoid robots in the competition - at the same venue!

The team at RoboCup (front left-to-right: Alessandra, Bente, Roberto - rear left-to-right: Abelm Daniel, Dan)

After the drop-in games we were able to fix some issues to allow us to compete. Our robots were able to see and …

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BoldHeart's Ywain Still on Tour

We are very pleased to confirm that our BoldBot Ywain is still on the AI: More than Human tour which originated at the Barbican in May 2019. This event brings together artists, Scientists and researchers to demonstrate the capabilities of artificial intelligence and the relationship between humans and technology. More …

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Qualification RoboCup 2023

The RoboCup 2022 world cup competition in Bangkok was the first in-person competition since the lockdowns began, where the RoboCup competition was unable to take place physically during 2020 and 2021.

The team in Bangkok for the first IRL competition since 2019

This was a real test for our team, after our robots not being fully deployed in such a long …

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Qualification material for RoboCup 2019

We submitted our qualification material for the RoboCup 2019 competition in Sydney/Australia. For that competition, we try to further enhance our robot platform "BoldBot". Our newly developed robot is based on the Darwin-OP and mostly self-printed. Most notably, we want to work on the structural support of the self …

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RoboCup 2015 - Second Game Day

Team Bold Hearts at RoboCup 2015 in Hefei, China

The Bold Hearts are out of the competition.. After becoming first of our group, we moved over to a different field to play the second round. The grass conditions were different again and our robots had too much trouble to adapt to it, meaning they weren't able to keep up …

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RoboCup 2015 - First Game Day

A year has gone by already since we became vice world champion in Brazil, so it's time for another RoboCup World Championship! This time in Hefei, China, and it will not be easy at all to reproduce the achievements!

After traveling for more than 24 hours from the United Kingdom …

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A Whole New Game; German Open 2015 Report

We have returned from Germany, with a trophy! Team Bold Hearts secured 3rd place at the 2015 RoboCup German Open competitions.

Bold Hearts win 3rd place at German Open 2015

It did not come easily, however. As mentioned in the previous post, a lot of changes were made to this year's rules, and the one that by far proved …

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Bold Hearts Prepare for RoboCup German Open 2015

Nimue fixing the boys

The new RoboCup season is in full swing. Last week the 2015 Iran Open took place, in which team Parand took first place in the Kid Size league (and in the Teen Size league), in front of German teams Fumanoids and the Hamburg BitBots. Congratulations to them! We had qualified …

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