Autonomous Robot Soccer Has More Action Than World Cup
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 25 of July , 2008 at 1:49 am
Playing soccer with humanoid robots is one thing; getting them to play soccer by themselves is something else entirely. The following video may not impress you much, but just remember, these robots are built and programmed by (for lack of a better word) amateurs, and they’re playing soccer without human intervention. The only bit of realism this game is missing are robots falling over left and right, grabbing their servos and screaming in agony:
And for all you soccer (football/futbol) fans out there, don’t get your shinguards in a twist, I’m just kidding… I’m a soccer player myself. Here, watch this (if you haven’t already), be amazed. Yeah, soccer robots have a little ways to go yet.
VIA [ Gizmodo ]
Edit- This is totally off the topic of robots, but I just watched that soccer video again, and my god, soccer is SO AWESOME. It’s the BEST SPORT EVER… besides badminton and curling.
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Comment by Whit+
Made Saturday, 26 of July , 2008 at 10:06 am
Evan,
Are the black apron/skirts the guys in the video wearing to keep the robots from sensing their legs?
Whit+
Comment by Evan Ackerman
Made Tuesday, 29 of July , 2008 at 3:58 am
Yeah, that would be my guess… I don’t know for sure, though. I would have thought that the bots would be bothered just as much by a big black object on the white side of the arena as they would be by a pair of legs, but I don’t know how their vision systems are set up.
Comment by HairyMan
Made Tuesday, 11 of November , 2008 at 8:41 pm
Not bad… Not bad.
Comment by Schnitker
Made Saturday, 2 of January , 2010 at 4:51 am
Spain ends up on top of the FIFA Coca Cola World Rankings over Brazil as the worlds best Soccer Team. http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/index.html