RoboCup 2018 Canada: GRIPS Team from TU Graz are World-Champions

Major success for a student team from TU Graz: GRIPS RoboCup team becomes world champion in the "Logistics" league of the RoboCup 2018 in Montreal, Canada. The GRIPS team of students from TU Graz manufactures robots for industrial applications. In an exciting RoboCup final on Thursday 21 June the GRIPS team beat team PYRO from France and secured the World Champion title in the "Logistics" league. The people behind GRIPS, short for Graz Robust and Intelligent Production System , are Sarah Haas, Jakob Ludwiger and team leader Thomas Ulz, all from TU Graz and Vanessa Egger from Graz University. The team's celebrations also extend to mentor Gerald Steinbauer from the Institute of Software Technology at TU Graz and its partners and sponsors. Apart from TU Graz itself - above all the Institutes of Software Technology, Technical Informatics and Automation and Control - powerful support comes from Knapp AG and incubedIT, AccuPower Austria and PIA Automation Austria. Gerald Steinbauer explains the secret of the success: "This year we have again dramatically increased the skills of our robots: by means of computer vision we have increased the precision in gripping products and improved our AI planning software. This gave us the certainty that we could manufacture even more complex products in the competition, which was ultimately the decisive factor for our victory." On their way to the podium, the GRIPS team defeated the reigning world champion, the team of RWTH Aachen University. In 2017 Team GRIPS already won the runner-up title in Japan and as "Rookie of the Year" became third in 2016 in the Leipzig championships. The robots of the Logistics League. "Industry 4.0?