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RoboCup 2004: Reports From The Field?

Posted by timothy on from the wire-service-live-reportage dept.

SeriousEyePanda writes "With this year's edition of RoboCup now taking place in Portugal (June 27-July 5), and many of us not able to attend, I'd like to ask for on-site reports from the event. The official site seems a bit lacking in this respect. What are your experiences and thoughts so far? Links to videos depicting game play would be especially appreciated (Freecached for Pete's sake)"

11 comments

  1. Cornell Robocup by ffejie · · Score: 4, Informative
    Cornell's Robocup team

    They have won in 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003. So I guess this is a good place to start.

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  2. Freecache links you say? by FesterDaFelcher · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sweet Cornell Team Video (14.1Mb)

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    1. Re:Freecache links you say? by FesterDaFelcher · · Score: 3, Informative

      That's from 2000, but still a sweet video.

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  3. Live news coverage on the Internet by QuantumG · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It would seem that when netizens disconnect from the Internet they don't take notes. Live coverage is pathetic on the net. For example, the live coverage of the SpaceShipOne 100km space shot consisted of a webcast of the Space Show where the onsite reporter was using a cell phone to relay back what was happening. No pictures. No video. Not to mention the fact that all the feeds were swamped because the Space Show has never had that many listeners before and as such you were listening to static for half the time (but webcasted static!).

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    1. Re:Live news coverage on the Internet by FrenZon · · Score: 1
      Live coverage is pathetic on the net. For example, the live coverage of the SpaceShipOne 100km space shot consisted of a webcast of the Space Show where the onsite reporter was using a cell phone to relay back what was happening.
      Not to poopoo on your very valid point, but the BBC had streaming video of the entire thing - details at bottom of this post. CNN and MSNBC also had web-video coverage, although the latter was prerecorded, and the former required a RealOne pass.
    2. Re:Live news coverage on the Internet by HeghmoH · · Score: 1

      BBC's streaming video also royally sucked; there was absolutely no commentary, and the cameraman was either drunk or had a very bad case of ADD, so I really had no idea of what was going on the entire time. The original poster is incorrect on this particular thing, but his general point is still very true.

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  4. Who needs video? by Via_Patrino · · Score: 1

    Get the signals (positions, kicks, ...) from the computers controlling the robots and make an interface for it :-)

  5. Marketing Company the reason by khanyisa · · Score: 2, Insightful
    See Footage Sales Site
    Welcome to RoboCup World Competition Footage Sales Site, We would like to introduce footage of the RoboCup World Competition which marketing right is held by Dentsu Kyusyu Inc
    No wonder its hard to get hold of...
  6. Dont forget RoboCup Junior! by The+Head+Sage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The RoboCup Junior competition is also on at the momemnt. The current team representing Australia is from my school and their robots are impressive. I've witnessed the bith of RoboCup Junior and have assisted with it since then. This is a great way to teach students about robotics and programming. One of the robots built at my school is programmed in ASM, which is a pretty good feat. I remember the early days of RoboCup junior where is was Lego alround and my team won the national championships in the first year...

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  7. Are you a truck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well, are you?

    1. Re:Are you a truck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I was wondering too! We may never know!