RoboCup 2007: let the games begin

While we weren't able to get a first-hand glimpse of the mayhem that is RoboCup this time around, a camera-wielding Georgia Tech graduate student was able to do the honors for us all, and snagged quite a bit of impressive footage from the expo. Many of the shots were snapped during yesterday's practice rounds as competitors prepped their gear for battle (which began yesterday), and we must say that the oh-so-athletic Junior Soccer League robots are worth the price of admission alone. Still, even if witnessing robotic contention in person isn't enough to drag you to Atlanta, be sure to click through to get a glimpse of homegrown robotic innovation at its finest.

[strider_mt2k @ Jul 4th 2007 9:06AM]

Awesome!

Very best of luck to all of this year's participants!

[Square @ Jul 4th 2007 9:45AM]

I for one welcome our new soccer playing robotic overloards...

Wait.. this is not /.

[mosh @ Jul 4th 2007 10:08AM]

Yeah! RoboCup

Robo are greats 'toys', In my collage are many people who made robots
its really intresting and fun (robofight ;) )

greating
mosh, http://www.silver.search.com

[tchiseen @ Jul 4th 2007 10:14AM]

endlessly cool. the humanoids are my favorite. good blog too, click that read link folks!

[Fernando Arias @ Jul 4th 2007 10:26PM]

Looks like they converted our basketball courts into a robo arena.

[Travis @ Jul 5th 2007 5:04PM]

I've got some new pictures and videos from RoboCup here:

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2007/07/05/robocup-2007-4th-of-july

[bronim @ Jul 11th 2007 8:59AM]

Here is the video of the Humanoid Soccer Final match:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICgL1OWsn58

The titleholder Team Osaka (Japan) met team NimbRo from Freiburg University (Germany). The same two teams had met in the two previous years. The 2007 final was one of the best humanoid soccer games ever, if not the best. Team Osaka played with one goalie and one field player while NimbRo used two field players. The Osaka robots were very quick to approach the ball and to kick it across the field. The NimbRo robots excelled in one-on-one fights for the ball and also demonstrated nice team play. The exciting game was open until the end. The final score was 8:6 for NimbRo.

The NimbRo robots not only won the KidSize soccer competition, but also the TeenSize Penalty Kick, where they defeated Pal Technology (Spain) 5:4 in the final.

More information and images can be found here:
http://www.NimbRo.net