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[rone]

"By far, the most popular sport was robot dog soccer, which employs two teams of four computer-programmed Sony Aibos. There are no remote controls."

Comments

[eviltofu.livejournal.com]

Where is the penalty spot?!?!?

[merde.livejournal.com]

to hell with the penalty spot -- where are the hands pulling that goal open?

[pobig.livejournal.com]

Hey, I think I saw a game between those same two teams at the Robogames thing at San Francisco State University. The goalkeepers weren't bad, but I lost count of how many times they had to haul dogs out because they got stuck walking into each other.

One interesting thing the article doesn't mention (maybe because they didn't do it in Atlanta) was that they had the teams switch ends at half time, but they didn't actually move them, just switched the software. It makes sense, but it was pretty confusing to watch.

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

There are no remote controls.

Hey, that's not fair. If human soccer players, along with politicians and scientists, are controlled by giant reptiloids from Planet Wazeeno, why shouldn't robots be too?

[xtingu]

Yay! I got to see these guys in action a few weeks ago.

Admittedly, there is a fair amount of time spent by humans intervening and moving the balls out of stuck positions, as well as human throw-ins.

Either way, it was very cool.

[frosch.livejournal.com]

elsewhere, in cyborg sports news: robot camel jockeys (http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/04/20/robot.jockeys.ap/).