The robot equivalent of the
World
Cup has kicked off in Bremen, Germany, with 440 teams from 36 countries
battling for 33 world championship titles.
RoboCup
runs until 18 June and includes leagues for simulation, small and middle size
robots, as well as four-legged and humanoid robots, among others.
"After 50 years of research with artificial intelligence, it has been
determined that these things can be better researched using soccer than the game
of chess," said Hans-Dieter Burkhard, vice president of the
RoboCup
Federation. "We have advanced a fair bit for this 10th year of RoboCup."
The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is to develop a team of fully
autonomous humanoid robots by 2050 that can win a match against the human World
Cup champions.
So far in the competition,
TeamOsaka
beat
NimbRo
TeenSize in the Humanoid TeenSize category by four goals to one, while in
the first round of the 3D simulation competition the biggest win was by
SEU
which put nine goals past
OPU
Hana 3D.
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