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Robot Makers Say World Cup Will Be Theirs By 2050
mindpixel writes "The Scotsman is reporting that the Japanese are very confident they can build a robotic team that will win the World Cup by 2050 using a descendent of the 38cm tall VisiON which operates completely independently of human input, making its own decisions based on information that it perceives with its 360 degree vision, and is able to recognise the football, approach it and deliver a hefty kick. It is also able to identify an opponent and shield the ball in much the same way as a human player does."
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Just replace players with tanks and the cup is yours!
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Will the robots also be able to fall down and scream in 'agony' when the opposition barely nicks them in the hope of getting a easy penalty?
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So what happens when one of the human players on the other team does a slide tackle on the robot? Does the robot fall down? Does the robot get damaged? Does the human get injured? IANASP, but it seems like physical contact between opposing players is so common that replacing man with machine is either clumsy, scary, or both.
If only soccer was as easy as a bit of shielding and hefty kicking !
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theres nothing in the rulebook that says a mule^H^H^H^Hrobot cant play.
Pampered multi millionaire footballers won't even step foot on a field if other players have slightly hard shin guards, let alone legs made of titianium!
Well, even today, I can build you a one-robot team that will, at least, would never lose.
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I needs no batteries or wheels. However, it is 24 feet wide and 8 feet high. If the ball is stiffly inflated, we can actually reduce the size of this robot down to about 23 feet wide by 7.5 feet tall.
and playing cricket we should be OK.
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Yet another product release by the Snake Oil corporation otherwise known as AI.
Content-free statements like the 2050 press release is what gives AI a bad name. Serious AI researchers would be well advised to ostracized people who make such half hazardly statements, yet they seem to embrace them: the overly (and misguidedly) ambitious robot soccer competition is part of the main conference in the field (IJCAI).
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Roy Keane? Staying power? World Cup? They sent him home!
making its own decisions based on information that it perceives with its 360 degree vision, and is able to recognise the football, approach it and deliver a hefty kick. It is also able to identify an opponent and shield the ball in much the same way as a human player does.
And if that doesn't convince you they'll win the World Cup, perhaps you need a demonstration of the man-killing laser beams that shoot out of their eyes, meatbag.
The football? I thought they said the World Cup. Don't these foreigners know that footballs are for the Super Bowl and soccer balls are for the World Cup? Sheesh.
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"a descendent of the 38cm tall VisiON"
38cm = 14.9606299 inches, or about a foot and two inches
Nothing to fear here. Except maybe leg-humping offenses.
By 2050 we will be able to clone a team of David Beckhams with giant mishapen, club feet and a goalie with 6 arms that will own the robot team!
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The World Cup? I'd say that they've set a pretty high
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Also, there's the interesting question of logistics: will the World Cup champion team want to play against a team of robots? How would you like to miss the ball and kick your shin right into a robot's aliminum alloy leg? Ouch!
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Can they train a robot to roll on the ground, screaming "My support units!" in hope of drawing a penalty shot?
Maybe the Italian robots.
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...can they design an authentic robotic soccer hooligan? (powered by alcohol of course)
You mean this?
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hydraulic jack which will win the weighlifting competition. And my Honda will win the marathon.
Apples and oranges, peeps. Sure, it's interesting, having robots and stuff. But this fetish about machine/human competition misses a big point, and is just plain dumb.
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As a robotics researcher, I've thought about this a lot, so here's my take:
The biggest problem is that Asimov's 3 Laws require complete information, which is not possible. Opening a door could hurt a human on the other side, therefore no robot can open a door. If you walk backwards or in the dark, you might step on a baby, so you can't do that either. And so it goes, making any action not possible. At the sime time, a robot is supposed to act to save people from harm. In addition, this all assumes the robot can process its sensors well enough to recognize people in all situations, and all potential sources of harm.
The best I've come up with is the following: A robot must take the action (possibly null) that results in the minimum expected harm to humans given currently available or easily obtainable information.
That's a lot weaker, and results potential accidental deaths due to ignorance (just like human actions). But everything in life involves risk, so that's pretty much inescapable.
Energy will be the issue. If a robot can use hydrocarbon fuels at whatever temperature the engineers can contain, they will have more energy available, and they will win.
If they are restricted in their power sources to roughly the same energy density as carbohydrates and muscle, then it's a much greater challenge. They will be making the same tradeoffs as humans: sprint now to get there, if it means being winded for a little while afterward?
It was kind of an extrapolation, Brazil has the highest rate per capita of plastic surgery of any nation in the world. (I would link to some studies to back that up, but time is of the essence.)
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