Robot Soccer

[samvara]

Went to the International Symposium on Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots exhibition with shrydar and J. It opened with a talk on the history of the development of Robot Soccer and the highlights of the past tournaments. We heard about the different challenges and saw examples of some of the gaming strategies. The Germans WIN at making their players do tricks.

Then we saw UTS Unleashed! (Sydney) play UWArriors (Perth). They dribble, kick, get sent off for 'pushing' and are adorably cute.

Dr Luigi Barone gave a fun talk on artificial intelligence pitched, alas, at small children.

WrightEagle (China) played UTS Unleashed (Sydney). Some fine goal scoring plus hilarious goal defence. I'm quite sorry the wireless was down because they play more interactively when they can 'talk' to each other. Even so, a very interesting and fun game.



Google "QRIO fan dance" as well for some robot dance action. I have a .wmv if you're too lazy.

Comments

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

Hee! The robots dancing were awesome. Really hard to believe that there weren't actually little tiny hiumans in there pretending to dance like robots.

I'm glad it was good, even if the AI chat was aimed at kiddies.