Stonyhurst wins National RoboCup Final!

14 Mar 2016

Young engineers at Stonyhurst College have won the RoboCup National Championships, held this weekend in Rugby, Warwickshire. RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition in which robots, designed, made and programmed by the competing teams, play football against each other.
The team members were George Cowperthwaite from Clitheroe, James Goodall from Buckingham and Vincent Ng from Hong Kong. This is the sixth consecutive year in which Stonyhurst has won the national round to represent the UK. They are hoping to go to Leipzig in July for the RoboCup World Championships.
Physics teacher at Stonyhurst James Bickerstaff, who runs the robotics club said: “The team performed very well together, with each having a different role to play, from programming the robots to dealing with the electronics and mechanics.”
The official goal of the competition is ‘to produce a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players capable of winning a soccer game, complying with the official rules of FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup’!

Photo: left to right – Physics teacher James Bickerstaff with the winning team (James Goodall, George Cowperthwaite and Vincent Ng)