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Robocup 2002 World Robot Soccer Championships

Posted by michael on from the slide-tackle dept.

dipfan writes "While the rest of the world is watching the soccer world championships in Korea and Japan this summer, at the same time the Robocup 2002 competition for soccer-playing robots is to take place there - the sixth time the tournament has been held, with 35 countries competing and this time including a "humanoid league" competition. The purpose is to foster research in robotics, with the aim of building a team of robots that can play and win against the best human teams by 2050. One of the pre-tournament favourites this year is Iran, who did well in 2000 but not in 2001. The Swedish team includes a star player named Priscilla, described as "looking like a sister of the Terminator". One of the Swedish designers comments: 'you don't want to give too much freedom to the robots as they will go crazy.' Much like flesh-and-blood highly-paid sports stars really."

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  1. Finally! by Yoda2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally, a robot with balls.

  2. "looking like a sister of the Terminator" by rafelbev · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am dreading to imagine what the father looks like if he finds out I was messing around with her...

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  3. Disqualified by thatguywhoiam · · Score: 5, Funny

    In related news today, the Brazilian contender for this year's Robot Soccer Cup was disqualified after testing positive for overclocking.

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    1. Re:Disqualified by Slak · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm waiting for the RoboHolligans contest.

    2. Re:Disqualified by Quixote · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm waiting for the RoboHolligans contest.
      I think the British RoboHooligans team will beat the crap out of the other robots, stomp on their guts, set the opposing teams' handlers on fire and run away (and be promptly banned from the next competition).

  4. Ah bright future indeed... by gklinger · · Score: 4, Funny

    I dream of a day where we have robots to play soccer for us thus freeing up humans for more valuable endeavours like building pyramids out of Coke cans.

  5. Build a useful robot.. by Planetes · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you're going to build a robot, make it useful! (Hey! Bring me a beer!)

    I saw this on the local (Orlando) news last night. A guy at UF built a beer opening robot (ABOR) as part of a project/competition. Some amusing ideas. Here's a link to a story about it: Robots

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  6. What about the fans? by Tickenest · · Score: 2, Funny

    So if they throw rolls of toilet paper onto the field at regular matches, what'll they throw when the robots are playing? Rolls of duct tape?

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  7. Fundamental Flaw by munderwo · · Score: 1, Funny

    Neat idea, but I think fundamentally flawed in that these robots are programmed by geeks. What the hell do they know about football? Have you seen those videos? All those damned Aibo's running after the ball... none of them hang back in defence or make a move for the box to wait for a cross in from the left.

    They've got no width, their midfield is sorely lacking, defence is a shambles and the strikers have no pace.. Its like watching Scotland play.

    Matt.