RoboCup

Today was the last day of RoboCup 2007 held in Atlanta, GA. The concept is creating a league of robots for a soccer competition. The RoboCup Official site describes the event:

"RoboCup is an international research and education initiative. Its goal is to foster artificial intelligence and robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be examined and integrated."

Team Osaka (Japan) lost to NimbRo (Germany) 5-7 in the Humanoid Championship, Small Size.

Team Osaka
Photo Credit Core 77

Team NimbRo
Photo Credit: Core 77

Check out the Humanoid league category competition: DD vs Team Osaka


Here's a video of RoboCup 2006 finals in the humanoid league category: NimbRo vs Team Osaka.