Author: Mark Ryan
Date: 23:45:07 12/24/04
… for anyone with a general interest in artificial intelligence: I believe that it has been more than a year since we last mentioned RoboCup in this forum. RoboCup is a long-term project, sponsored by several large corporations, to develop a humanoid robot team capable of defeating the human world soccer champions by the year 2050. Initial attempts were laughably weak, but some startling progress has been made, and this can be seen on the official website: http://www.robocup.org/ If you enter to http://www.robocup.org/02.html and then click on “Pictures and short clips”, you will arrive here http://www.robocup2004.pt/photosAndVideos/ and then, under the “Videos” column, click on “4-legged” to get this list of movies http://www.robocup2004.pt/photosAndVideos/videos/4-legged/ Older movies, seen some years ago, showed the robots aimlessly head-butting the ball in the general direction of the goal, and scoring was due more to chance than skill. But skill is clearly responsible for the goal shown in this movie: the scoring team shows superior team positioning, and the goal itself is the result of a fine effort by the robot, which approached the ball well, controlled it, aimed, and shot powerfully and accurately to score MVI_2247.AVI The next movie begins with an unusual and effective defensive clearance. Poor follow-up play allows an attacker to take 4 quick shots: a kick with the left fore-leg, a header, another powerful kick with the left fore-leg, and then a back-heel with the same leg MVI_2394.AVI This movie shows a fine headed goal MVI_0405.avi This movie shows a back-heel shot with the left fore-leg MVI_0318.avi Enjoy :) Mark
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