RoboGames 2006 Wrapup

An anonymous reader writes "Engadget has a quick summary of much of the coverage surrounding the 2006 RoboGames. The games wrapped up today after much fire-fighting, speed-racing, and just plain robo-strutting around. The official results are still pending but it looks like the USA has a commanding lead on the medal count with Singapore and Japan filling the second and third slots."

Comments

Re:Wow

[JanneM]

Anyone else suprised we got first?

When it was held in Stockholm, the university of Teheran won the final over an italian team in the big league. The best US team came fourth, I believe.

WTF ist Robogames? Everyone is at Robocup

[zerojoker]

Seriously, currently most of the worlds researchers are at www.robocup2006.org. Interstingly the medal count looks quite differnt there, with Germany leading with 11 medals, China 9, Japan 6 and Iran 5...

Robots?

[Porchroof]

The competition is mislabeled. It has nothing at all to do with robots and much to do about remote-control devices. Big difference.

Re:Robots?

[operagost]

ro·bot (rbt, -bt)
n.

A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance.
A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control.
A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others.

Source: The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Re:Robots?

[IorDMUX]

Though many of the events allowed the use of remote-control devices, about half did require completely autonomous robots to be fielded (or at least penalized the teams that relied on human-control). In the FIRA soccer tournament, for instance, each team of robots was "managed" by a host computer that could communicate with each robot. However, the humans were not allowed to interact with the computer/robot network for the entirety of the event. Certain robot-battle events, as well as all of the navigation events and nearly all of the sumo events required fully autonomous robots to be fielded.