Moving Europe

IT with a kick
With IT, anything’s possible. Even
winning against the human world
championship team in soccer.
This is the ambitious goal that
programmers of humanoid robots
hope to achieve by 2050. Till then,
much remains to be done. In July,
2,600 school pupils, students
and researchers from around the
world convened at the RoboCup championship in Istanbul.
In the humanoid class, the Americans from Virginia
Tech had the edge when it came to dribbling, winning
with DARwin in the Kid Size and with CHARLI in the
Adult Size (130 centimetres and above). In the Teen Size
(up to 120 centimetres) the German NimbRo team from
Bonn University came first. The final score: lots of goals,
powerful technology, no injuries. The only thing that’s not
yet programmed is the swapping of jerseys – but there’s
still plenty of time for that between now and 2050.
SCRAPBOOK
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What am I?
If I didn’t already exist, someone would
have to invent me. Oh, now I know what
you’re thinking: anyone could say that! But
have you ever stopped to think what the
world – especially the office world – would
be like without me? It just doesn’t bear contemplating.
Everything would fall to pieces. Worse still –
there’d be nothing to distract yourself with during boring
phone calls or meetings. You’d have to bend over backwards
to keep yourself happy. And what if you should
want to tighten a screw, clean your pipe or make a necklace?
At that point you’d simply have to invent me.
Take part and win in “What am I?”, DACHSER magazine’s
prize competition. If you think you know what the picture is showing,
then send us your answer by 21.10.2011 to:
gewinnspiel.kempten@dachser.com
Knowing where
Harmony in marriage, between flatmates, with
colleagues at work? No problem – as long as everyone
knows where the shared car has been parked.
Berlin architect Melanie Nölken has rendered urban
groups an enormous service with the invention of her
car location assistant (www.kunstschule.net). An indispensable
aid for all those scatterbrains who often
forget where they or their partner last parked the
car near their office or home. The principle is simple:
a laminated map of the
respective area is
stuck onto a stylized
metal box. The driver
simply places a
magnetized miniature
car on the spot where
he or she last parked.
What could be
more harmonious?
Solution from 2/2011:
What you could win:
3 current Mindjet MindManager software
licences each worth EUR 399. Mindjet MindManager
is the leading mapping tool for structuring and
communicating your ideas and information simply
and visually.
Find out more at www.mindjet.com
Take part
and win in the
DACHSER prize
competition
The correct solution was “auto-valve”.
The winners are:
Corinne Billerey, F-Saint Laurent du Var
Johannes Thummet, D-Lauf a. d. Pegnitz
Maggie Chisholm, GB-Newhaven
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DACHSER magazine 23