Video of humanoid robot football (soccer) competition in German, April 2008. They are a bit slow but it sure looks like this is a fun area to watch the improvement of robot engineering.
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June 18th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
“The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.” – Adam Smith…
June 18th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
It may be slow, but look just how far technology has come! My favorite part was in the beginning where the Goal keeper tries to push the other robot out of the way. These are the beginnings of building robots that can explore other planets.
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