RoboCup 2003

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."

Comments

Intersting....

[Xtraneous]

This seems like it would be a pretty fun event to watch. I have had some experience with robotics helping out with high-school students. In my area there is what we call *CCRA.

* County Compettive Robbotics Association; The students (as teams) got kits of motors, electronics, pnuematics (etc.) to mess around with, and in the end create a working bot to use in a competition!

Asimo...

[Gortbusters.org]

interesting concept, hefty price tag!

Re:When are they going to make driving robots

[sirius_bbr]

Driving a car in an unlimited and mostly uncontrolled environment is a much more complex task than navigating a robot (or team of -) in a more or less controlled and certainly a limited environment. However, a lot of research that is done in the robotsoccer field (computer vision, anticipating to unexpected situations), may be very useful to realize autonomous vehicle guidance in the (probably not very near) future.