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Equipped with EtherCAT, the soccer robots of the Dutch Team Tech United Eindhoven won the RoboCup German Open in Hanover, Germany. In the semi-final they defeated the acting world champion of the Middle Size League, the Brainstormers Tribots from Osnabrück, Germany; a team that had not been beaten since 2004. In the finals it took a penalty shoot-out to beat the current number 3 in the world ranking, the CoPS Team from Stuttgart. At the RoboCup World Championship from 14 to 20 July 2008 in Suzhou, China, the Tech United team was beaten by the Portuguese Cambada team in the final. The Tech United Robots use EtherCAT for interfacing to drives, sensors and actuators.. ...
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EtherCAT Robots win German Open and come second in the world