As if we Earthlings didn't have enough to worry over with robots from every corner of the globe likely
mounting a silent offensive to
overtake our societies and claim ownership of our land, now we're faced with the startling realization that even our
sporting events aren't safe from subterfuge. At the seventh annual RoboCup German Open, hordes of teams have descended upon the pitch in order to compete in robot-only soccer, er, football matchups. Quite honestly, everything seemed fine and dandy until we hit a quote from Stefan Kohlbrecher, a member of the Technical University of Darmstadt's Darmstadt Dribblers team: "The goal of the RoboCup is to compete against human world champions with robots by the year 2050." Funny, we'll supposedly be
fornicating with androids by that same year. Cue Michael Stipe, please.
posted Apr 23rd 2008 8:36AM
It is all fun and games until someone loses a nut.
Maybe the England team has just found some new talent!
The keeper certainly managed to keep more out that Paul Robinson.
I can't wait to see Bolton Wanderers play the Bolt-on Wanderers.
let the uprising begin....
zindane is totally going to hit it!
Headbutt* it
a metal kick to the shin is going to hurt mighty bad!!
I sure as hell won't slide tackle one of those!
We created a soccerteam based on the RoboCup Virtual ruleset at my university in the fall of 2006. It was so much fun, and I would really love to be able to work more with AI after that project. We saw some of the "real" teams from the RoboCup in action, and it's unbeliable what they are capable of already.
It's very certain that the bottleneck is already robotics. The AI is already there, and then some.
Watch your back. Sarah Conner reads engadget.
But the real question is how skilled are they at flopping and drawing a yellow card? The true key to success in soccer, right Italy.
They can build robots that play soccer, but can't build a miniature soccer ball?
So they want to compete against human world champions by 2050. Does that mean they'll be able to beat the U.S. mens team by 2020?
Well this is certainly more bad news for American soccer. As it stands now, the only team we can beat is ourselves.
I want to be Roy's friend. He looks plucky.
Roy looks like he would kill you given the chance.
is baseball next?
Farnsworth: He's good, alright. But he's no Clem Johnson. And Johnson played back in the days before steroid injections were mandatory.
Bender: Clem Johnson? That skin bag wouldn't have lasted one pitch in the old Robot Leagues! Now Wireless Joe Jackson, there was a blern-hitting machine!
Leela: Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns! I mean, come on, Wireless Joe was nothing but a programmable bat on wheels.
Bender: Oh, and I suppose Pitchomat 5000 was just a modified howitzer?
Its been a while so...
I for one welcome our new soccer-world-champion-robo-overlords
Yo you ass much. (looking at you webon) You stole my icon. It took me over an hour to photoshop Gadgie and give him X's in his eyes and turn that smile into a frown. I want some fucking royalties.... blah, I'll just put something better up. Thieving mofo.
Hey newbe, thats been ma icon since last year
And why photoshopit when the kind dudes at EG did it already??
loosr
It gives new meaning to crunching tackle!
You can use this robot to play a (boring) football play
or
you can use the same robots, give it a chainsaw/shotgun and put fighting each other in a "Highlander" competition. And for more funny you can change the usual black oil for a crimson one.
you surely meant Unreal Tournment
And by 2050 robots will beat humans at what?
To be able to beat the human's soccer world champion team by year 2050 *IS* one of the goals of the RoboCup from its creation. This is VERY old news.
Those things look like robotic lawn jockies....... .
I don't think it's fair to place human against robot.
Robots don't have shins (for those shin-to-shin kicks where both players go down in agony).
Robots don't have balls, so kicking them in the balls doesn't work.
you forgot about the headbut!
Place your bets, BigDog winning the Kentucky derby by 2015, by 2050, the two legged will be ruled by the four legged!
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a hove stamping on a human face - forever
I'd put my money on BigDog now...
By that time they can make softer bots, with nuts and all... they could use androids, but still... I think there is no fun in watching an artificial game, unless they'd be controlled by humans I suspect it would be too perfect and too predictable.
If they where controlled by humans it could be fun to watch some super hero moves or something like that, but it should have to be bot against bot, to be fair.
DON'T ACTIVATE SKYNET!!!
bend it like beckham-bot!
Well, I will be 90 years old (if still alive) in 2050, so this'll be something to look forward to... that and my flying car!!!
Team Osaka (Japan) vs. NimbRo (Univ. of Freiburg, Germany)
The 2007 final
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICgL1OWsn58&feature=related)
And if u want to see humans VS robots check this out :)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow7mzhPwlkw)