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Little Robots Play Soccer

qengho writes "Vstone's programmable and automonous humanoid robot Robovie-M can play soccer, throw a ball both over- and underhand, and even demonstrate shame (over a missed shot, presumably). Lots of QuickTime movies of the bot in action."

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  1. Where are the by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hot robot soccer moms?

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Flamebait

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  3. Carnegie Mellon AIBOs pwn this by ElGnomo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Im actually a student at Carnegie mellon University where we have our own teams of robotic soccer players, ranging from cute little Sony Aibos dogs that pwn in international Aibo dog soccer competitions ( not kidding! )to an up and comming segway team!
    check it out here

  4. Re:What about this? by levram2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    That "robot" is a cgi stealth marketing ad for the mini cooper. See this previous slashdot discussion.

  5. Re:Robot Shame by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is shame *really* what we want in a robot?

    509 - Server Is Expressing Shame for not handling
    slashdot load.