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

[goonies]

#define we; ?

In another news

[William Robinson]

And in detailed study, all winner robots were found manufactured using Chinese components, and software written by Indians.. *ducks*

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.

I object!

[Anonymous Coward]

The only reason the Japanese came in third was because there was no "giant mecha" category!

Re:I object!

[facelessnumber]

Yes, but their 'bots will dominate next year when the new "tentacle rape" event is introduced.

Re:Wow

[El_Muerte_TDS]

From the looks of it "we" didn't even compete. Don't see how "we" could win.

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...

Re:WTF ist Robogames? Everyone is at Robocup

[Silver Sloth]

Well they were, untill we /.ed it!

Robots cry out..

[stimpleton]

...it looks like the USA has a commanding lead on the medal count."

01010101 01010011 01000001 ! 01010101 01010011 01000001 !

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.

Re:Wow

[JanneM]

It has been in Stockholm? I remember RoboCup being here (Stockholm) some years ago. Is it related by any chance?

*slaps my head repeatedly with a frozen trout*

I thought about RoboCup the whole time. My parent post is thus _not_ "+1 informative", it's "-1000 moron at the keyboard".

I should know the difference; I was part of the group rigging the lighting for Robocup in Stockholm.

Obligatory Simpons quote . .

[Don_dumb]

"If robots can feel pain - we must be terrible, terrible people"