I was watching Cartoon Network with my son, and caught a bit about the robocup challenge. Needless to say, I found that interesting so I did a little research. It seems there are a few different leagues, but the one I found the most interesting was the Aibo (Four Legged) League.
Currently, there exist a number of different RoboCup soccer leagues that focus on different aspects of this challenge. The Four-Legged League is one of them. In the league teams consisting of four Sony Aibo robots each play on a field of 6 m x 4 m. The robots operate fully autonomously, i.e. there is no external control, neither by humans nor by computers.
[Four-Legged League]
Watching the clip on Cartoon Network it seemed very cut and dry. Like they where pretty far along. I found the final of the 2006 Championship on YouTube, and it isn’t bad. Its speed is about what I figured, but they do seem relatively intelligent. They did a lot of passing and it wasn’t always a dog pile (sorry I had to say it). Below you’ll find a 22 Minute final on YouTube and below that links to some interesting sources.
Sources:
- Four Legged League Official Home
- Georgia Tech Wiki
- RoboCup 2007 which will be in Alanta
- And the YouTube Search that got me the above video
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