RoboCup footage roundup

With RoboCup now wrapped up for another year, we thought it'd be worth taking some time to spotlight some of the thrills and spills of this year's competition. Thankfully, there's no shortage of footage to choose from, much of which has found its way onto YouTube. While it's tough to pick a favorite, we were especially impressed with the match between the Darmstadt Dribblers and Team Nimbro, which not only featured ample amounts of hilarity, but a few actual displays of robot soccer skill (as seen above). Click on through for the complete video roundup.

Darmstadt Dribblers vs. CIT/H

Robots Gone Wild!

Brainstormers Tribots

Robot Transformers! (not really)

Tech United vs. CoPS

Robot assembling lego

RoboCup Dance

[Mighty Tomahawk @ Jul 10th 2007 7:11PM]

This is the beginning of the end we have become so lazy we make robots to play sports instead of getting up and moving ourselves...lol

[drs650 @ Jul 10th 2007 7:45PM]

sweet

[Paul @ Jul 10th 2007 8:09PM]

I for one welcome our soccer playing, lego assembling, dancing snowball (wtf?) robotic overlords.

/ sorry
// not really

[grjohnston @ Jul 10th 2007 11:45PM]

I for one, really do welcome our sport-playing overlords.

I mean, we've got chess playing computers. This is way more exciting. I often think that robots have no point outside of replacing people in jobs that humans can't/won't do. But here, humans won't be replaced. They'll have to share the spotlight, but if the Olympics' major goal (no pun intended) is to celebrate humanity, the best that robotics sports could ever do is celebrate human engineers instead of human athletes.

[Wayne @ Jul 11th 2007 2:46AM]

The snowman robots are gay.

[nimbro @ Jul 11th 2007 6:53AM]

Here is a video of the Humanoid Soccer Final match: Team Osaka vs. NimbRo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICgL1OWsn58

Enjoy!

[hinoe @ Jul 11th 2007 9:53PM]

Dances with robots?