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German Robot Dogs Dominate 2005 RoboCup U.S. Open

Posted by timothy on from the and-how-often-do-you-get-to-say-that? dept.

fishdan writes "As reported over on Sportsdot, the 2005 RoboCup US Open wrapped up today in Atlanta, Georgia. The American entry from the University of Texas fell 2-0 in robot soccer to the powerhouse German squad, the MicroSoft HellHounds. After the match, the German robot dogs were programmed to flex their metal biceps. With the time to devote to development and the financial backing of a company like Microsoft, the German entries are much more polished then their American counterparts at the moment. Last month at the RoboCup German Open, the Germans dominated nearly every category. (Slashdot has covered Robocup in previous years, too.)"

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  1. Why Germans? by inherent+monkey+love · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Other than to give the foil-hat types among us a dose of pyrric irony, why would Microsoft team up with a German team? I would think that the past few months have demonstrated that Europeans dislike Microsfot even more than the US. So why?

  2. Does anyone have video of the match? by neo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd really like to watch the match, did anyone save the video?

  3. Re:German?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    As opposed to the peace and love spread by the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese throughout the world.

    Honestly, yes. Those four other cultures also were capable of agressive miltary expansion, but they didn't incorporate them into their basic culture as much as the Prussians. Just because I stated that the Prussians enshrined authoritarian miliatrisim as ideals does not imply that they were the only europeans who could be violent. They just were notably more apt to keep it as the status quo.