Soccerbots

[Taro Toporific]

The Robots' Soccer Circuit
Washington Post / Tuesday, May 13, 2003...RoboCup has the stated goal of developing a bipedal robot soccer team that will be able to beat the human World Cup soccer champions by 2050... RoboCup 2002, in Fukuoka, Japan, boasted 193 teams and 120,000 spectators...this is a big deal. The Aibo dog league and a separate competition for wheeled robots have different rules, but they share one important requirement: Once the humans flip the switch, the robots are on their own. They "see" the ball, "decide" whether to shoot or pass, defend against their opponents and select plays based on software designed to cope with almost any eventuality. The robots are fully autonomous.

[Mulboyne]

Photo: Asahi
Kippo: RoboCup 2005 Osaka to open on July 13
The RoboCup 2005 Osaka will be held at Intex Osaka in Suminoe Ward, Osaka City, from July 13 to 19 with the participation of more than 400 teams from 35 countries and territories. RoboCup is an international project to promote artificial intelligence and robotics research with a dream to create a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players which can win a game against the winner of the most recent World Cup by 2050...The Humanoid League at the soccer division has so far been a shoot-out of one against one, but this time, a two-against-two shoot-out will be done for the first time. With a 10 million-yen research and development subsidy from the Osaka municipal government, the "Team Osaka," an industry-academic robot research and development consortium, has largely remodeled the "VisiON" robot, the league's winner at the previous competition in Lisbon, and developed the "VisiON NEXTA [above]," having a processing speed eight times faster. With fast autonomous action, such as high-speed walking and shooting by measuring distances between the ball and the goal, the robot will try to win for the second consecutive time.

[Taro Toporific]

RoboCup 2005 Humanoid Winner is Team Osaka with VisiON
i4u.com, Sunday, July 17 2005 : 10:00:00 CDT
...Review Team Osaka with their pretty advanced VisiON won the RoboCup 2005 Humanoid robot soccer world cup.
Team Osaka won against German Team NimbRo 2:1

[Taro Toporific]

RoboCup 2005 Humanoid Winner is Team Osaka with VisiON
i4u.com, Sunday, July 17 2005 : 10:00:00 CDT...Team Osaka won against German Team NimbRo 2:1

Poor dorky "Tony" of Germany's Team NimbRo. Even he's smiling about how lame he looks.

[GuyJean]

Poor dorky "Tony" of Germany's Team NimbRo. Even he's smiling about how lame he looks.

Nice one, Taro.

GJ

[Mulboyne]

Photo: Asahi

New Eco-Be Micro-Soccerbots from Citizen Watch. The company will compete in the Robocup tournament but has no plans to put them on sale.

[Taro Toporific]

Iran the new robot super-power challenges Japan:mrgreen:

RoboCup 2006 Results
I4U - June 18, 2006 ----Japan is only 3rd with 6 wins after China who won in 9 categories. Surprisingly Iran is fourth with 5 wins. Iran the new robot super-power? …more…