Robots Not Quite Ready To Challenge Humans At Soccer
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 3 of June , 2009 at 5:35 am
The goal of RoboCup is to have a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that are able to bury the best human soccer team in the world by 2050. As you can see, we’re not quite there yet, and I have a hunch that it doesn’t really matter that these robots are playing against members of Japan’s national soccer team. Those defenderbots seem pretty determined, though. The video is from RoboCup Osaka 2009, which also played host to a Sony Aibo driving a holonomic base:
Kinda solves the whole problem of running around on stubby little legs, huh? You can see a video of that over at Robot Watch.
[ RoboCup ] VIA [ Robot Watch ]
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Comment by Zog
Made Wednesday, 3 of June , 2009 at 5:27 pm
Why are these so awful? Those tiny Rubik’s cube looking bots you posted months ago would mop the floor with these. They just need to supersize them.