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Bend It Like Nimbro

Soccer-playing humanoids kick off one of the biggest robotics competitions of the year

By Patrick Di Justo Posted 06.01.2006 at 2:00 am 0 Comments

For a video of the soccer-playing bots in action, click here (WMV Format).

As World Cup soccer rages in Germany this month, 350 teams from around the world will convene in the city of Bremen to compete in the robotic equivalent, the 10th annual RoboCup World Championship. The goal, so to speak, of this event is highly ambitious: to create android athletes that could whip the human world-champion soccer team by the year 2050and, along the way, advance the field of artificial intelligence.

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