Wednesday August 11, 2004 Robots to beat Humans at Soccer by 2050?
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A little while ago, Jonathan Schwartz blogged about a cool robot, that can do a lot of things that a soccer player can. Last night I read an article in the October 2002 edition of Scientific American. The free online version of this article above is very skimpy compared with the magazine one, but in short, there is an annual RoboCup robotic soccer competition held each year, where, amongst other things, different teams compete to see who has got the best soccer playing robot. Here is the official web site. |
As their home page says, their goal (no pun intended) is:
By the year 2050, to develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team.
After seeing the movies for the robot that Jonathan pointed out, I can believe that this goal is not that farfetched.
This year the competition was in Lisbon.
Competition is in a variety of leagues:
And finally, if you'd like to simulate these wonderous soccer playing robots on your computer, checkout the RoboCup Soccer Simulator on SourceForge.
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Posted by M. Mortazavi on August 11, 2004 at 03:32 PM PDT #