Videos From RoboCup 2009
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 9 of July , 2009 at 3:57 am
We couldn’t quite make it to RoboCup 2009 this year… Austria is a bit out of the BotJunkie travel budget when you factor in the first class tickets, five star hotels, and seven course meals that I obviously require. But plenty of other people were there with video cameras, and there’s a bunch of great footage up on YouTube, some of the best of which I’ve got for you here.
As a soccer player, I’ll admit to being vaguely shocked by just how good these robots are. There’s team work, dribbling skills, fake outs, shots to the corners, and even attempts to chip the goalie. At the moment, it’s the non-humanoids who are playing the best game, but progress is being made very, very quickly. And just let me emphasize that these are not remote controlled robots: everything you’re watching is fully autonomous.
More vids after the jump, including more midsize robots as well as some humanoid on humanoid action.
Humanoids still have some tricks up their non-sleeves, though… This is Bruno, from the Darmstadt Dribblers, scoring on a penalty kick with a fully autonomous heel kick from back in 2006:
You can find many more matches on YouTube; just search for RoboCup 2009.
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