Pitch-R

Nissan X Champions League

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Nissan wanted their partnership with the UEFA Champions League to go beyond conventional sponsorship media. So in 2018 they began an ambitious new initiative called the Nissan Football Lab. A place where Nissan use their technology to innovate football. 

   By utilising the same technology used in their self-driving vehicles and applying it to the grassroots game, Pitch-R became the first innovation to roll out of the lab.

“The UEFA Champions League features the best footballers in the world. But all those star players started out like every kid – using jumpers for goalposts and chalk to mark lines wherever they could find open space to play the game they love. That’s the passion which drove our design and engineering team to create Pitch-R. It injects the best of Nissan technology into an innovation which can benefit grassroots football.”

Roel De Vries, Nissan Vice President

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fig.01  Initial concept board.  fig.02  3D visualisation.  fig.03  Mechanical drawing detail.  fig.04  Paint spraying mechanism.  fig.05  Spray paint test.  fig.06  Movement testing.  fig.07  First pitch painting test.  fig.08  ProPilot technology at work.  fig.09  Pitch-R painting a pitch.  fig.10  Pitch-R complete.