… how about robots playing soccer?
Well, at least if robots take over soccer (Euro football), we will be spared all the Euro-noise around the players’ WAGs (Wives And Girlfriends).
More seriously, the rate of progress in humanoid robot performance is really quite startling.
The final of the ROBO League robot football tournament concluded on Saturday in Beijing, the THU Robotics from Tsinghua University defeated the Mountain Sea from China Agricultural University team 5:3 to win the championship. …
“We chose the football scenario for robot competition primarily for two reasons: first, to encourage students to apply their algorithmic skills to real-world robotics; second, to showcase the robots’ ability to walk autonomously and stably, withstand collisions, and demonstrate higher levels of intelligence and safety,” Cheng said. …
According to Cheng, current robot football performance is roughly equivalent to that of five- to six-year-old children, scoring around one to two points per match. But progress has been remarkably rapid. …