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German Robot Dogs Dominate 2005 RoboCup U.S. Open
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.)"
Well, we still woop their butt in robot basketball.
Oh- Plus, our team just lost because they were intimidated by the German robotic soccer hooligans.
... if asking for a beer and a dog at the event would be frowned upon?
What happens to the dogs that get the blue screen of death?
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
It was CMDash from Carnegie Melon that played Dortmund in the US-German match. UT Austin Villa placed 3rd behind UPenn and CMU.
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?
"Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win." -- Gary Lineker (English soccer/football player)
We need to develop a robot to watch soccer, an activity Americans generally consider too tedious for humans.
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Also, let it be known that it wasn't us (UT Austin Villa) that played the Germans, but the team from CMU (CMDash).
Also, let it be known that in the world competition, the German teams all combine to form one team of about 80 people from many different universities around Germany. They have a very structured codebase (I believe the use a lot of XML to define behaviors and motions) that they all work on. Don't crown the German Team too quickly though, there are some mighty good teams from Australia too, one of which gave the German Team a serious run for their money in last year's RoboCup finals.
Why am I beset by the image of huge metal german shepards chasing me through the woods and then sitting up and flexing over my lifeless corpse.
German... Robot... Dogs... Chilling.
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal...
I'd really like to watch the match, did anyone save the video?
The pusher robot would smash them all by pushing them over the stairs.