10th Annual RoboCup

Aryabhata writes "As soccer fever continues the 10th RoboCup also got to a start. 400 teams fight it out in 11 different leagues including onces designed for humanoid to four legged robots. "The organizers of the tournament hope that in 2050 the winners of the RoboCup will be able to beat the human World Cup champions".
Beyond the novelty value, the cup enables 2,500 experts in artificial intelligence and robot engineering to meet and test their latest ideas. The championships is followed by a 2 day conference where the teams can dissect their play and work."

Re:2050

[mustafap]

Well lets look at what current footballers are like. Mostly dumb, and very vain.

We have dumb robots, so we just have to work on the 'vain' bit over the next 44 years.

Re:Silly northamericans.

[zippthorne]

Me either, but it certainly is odd to call a sport football in which the ball is a nearly perfect sphere and not in any way shaped like a foot.

Re:2050? Yeah, right.

[CrazyJim1]

Would you play against a plastics/metal body?
Well after that yellow card, things are getting rough out there on the field. And look, the robots are putting in their hooligan who used to be a battlebot.

The real question is...

[Alicat1194]

How well will the robots be able to fake injuy?

Ow! Ref! The human just kicked me in my power coupler! The pain! The pain! ::convincing limp::...

Starbucks' RoboCup?

[antdude]

SomethingAwful's amusing doctored image [somethingawful.com] with StarBucks [starbucks.com]' RoboCup!

"Careful, the beverage you're about to enjoy is extremely hot, Creep." --Jonah in RoboCop Archive forum thread [robocoparchive.com].