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10th Annual RoboCup
Aryabhata writes "As soccer fever continues the 10th RoboCup also got to a start. 400 teams fight it out in 11 different leagues including onces designed for humanoid to four legged robots. "The organizers of the tournament hope that in 2050 the winners of the RoboCup will be able to beat the human World Cup champions".
Beyond the novelty value, the cup enables 2,500 experts in artificial intelligence and robot engineering to meet and test their latest ideas. The championships is followed by a 2 day conference where the teams can dissect their play and work."
Beyond the novelty value, the cup enables 2,500 experts in artificial intelligence and robot engineering to meet and test their latest ideas. The championships is followed by a 2 day conference where the teams can dissect their play and work."
http://www.cmu.edu/PR/releases06/060608_robocup.ht ml The competition is not just about robots preforming soccer. There are two other events that are completely unrelated to soccer. One event is search and rescue and the newest competition involves domestic applications. PS. This is probably the only time I will ever watch a soccer event.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
It's called FOOTBALL.
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The BEEB's blurb was interesting, but here is a link to the RoboCup 2006 home page
There are pics, background, schedules, leagues, etc.
"As soccer fever continues the 10th RoboCup also got to a start."
It got to a start four days ago and finished at about the same time as this story was posted!
Anyway, I was quite impressed - watched lots of it through an internet live stream. The humanoids still have a way to go, but in a few years, it will look much better.
There are lots of videos on http://www.robocup.zdf.de/ (in German).
SmilingBoy.