Welcome to the webpage for the RoboCup US OPEN SPL 2009! This event will be held May 2nd and 3rd in the Watson Ice Arena at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Admission is free and open to the public.
The Event
The US OPEN event is a preliminary (though not qualifying) event leading up to the RoboCup World Championships in Graz, Austria this summer. The event at Bowdoin will feature the Standard Platform League, which consists of NAO humanoid robots playing autonomous soccer for two 10-minute halves on a 5 x 7 meter field.
The Teams
Four US teams will be in attendance – AustinVilla from the University of Texas at Austin, CMWrEagle from Carnegie Mellon University, UPennalizers from the University of Pennsylvania, and the Northern Bites from Bowdoin College. The French robotics company who created the NAO, Aldebaran, will also be in attendance.
Directions
Updated Schedule
Sunday May 3rd (Semis and Finals)
10:00 AM – UTexas v. CMU
11:00 AM – UPenn v. Bowdoin
(lunch break)
1:30 PM – CMU v. Bowdoin for 3rd and 4th place
2:30 PM – Texas v. UPenn for 1st and 2nd place
Video
The event will be streamed live.