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RoboCup 2003

Posted by michael on from the ed-209 dept.

Kylose Boondoggler writes "Sony AIBOs play soccer against each other in the American Open 2003, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in preparation for RoboCup '03. Teams from all over North and South America (including teams from Georgia Tech, Cornell, and UPenn) will compete in various leagues from soccer-playing AIBO to pure computer simulations. Local newspaper coverage is provided by The Tartan. Honda's ASIMO will also make an appearance along with rescue robots constructed by Carnegie Mellon."

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  1. videos by fjordboy · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are a bunch of videos here, they appear to be of varying sizes...though the first one I started downloading is still going strong and just passed the 42 meg mark...actually, right as I was writing this it stopped, so it is 43 megs...so the videos are big and long (hopefully). Enjoy.

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  2. Re:When are they going to make driving robots by eizan · · Score: 4, Informative

    there are some great papers on this site that might be of interest

    http://www.ri.cmu.edu/projects/project_160.html

  3. alan alda by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Alan alda has a great show about aibo soccer in his scientific frontier show.

  4. Re:When are they going to make driving robots by heli0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    That is exactly what they are attempting here.

    "The challenge is to build an autonomous vehicle which can 'navigate on its own over a 250-mile desert course in less than 10 hours.' from L.A. to Vegas, 'without external communication or human control.'"

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  5. Not quite by LenE · · Score: 2, Informative

    FYI Cornell doesn't compete in the AIBO league.

    Cornell does compete in the F180 small size league. The real test will be in Padua Italy in early July. As a reminder, Robocup 2003 is the real competition.

    Seeing that CMU didn't place in the top four at Fukuoka last year, while Cornell took the title, congratulations to CMU. And good luck in Italy.

    -- Len

  6. Other competitions by blackcoot · · Score: 2, Informative

    For the HS crowd, there's Botball, which had it's DC area competition this weekend at UMCP, sponsored by the K.I.S.S. Institute for Practical Robotics. KIPR also puts together neat kits if you're looking for something to play with (a word of advice, Interactive-C blows and it's type checking system is flakey at best).

    There's also Trinity Colleges's Autonomous Robotics Firefighting Contest which has a league for just about anybody. Qualifying alone is an impressive feat.

    Also, if you're interested in the simulation league, you may be interested in checking out this paper which was written by one of the profs in my department.

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