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qengho writes "Vstone's programmable and automonous humanoid robot Robovie-M can play soccer, throw a ball both over- and underhand, and even demonstrate shame (over a missed shot, presumably). Lots of QuickTime movies of the bot in action."
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If someone says soccer, you know what it is. If someone says football, you have to find out which of the several different sports they are referring to.
Americans may not like soccer, but at least they have a better less-confusing name for it.
You know, you're right... because people are always kicking a ball in american FOOTball.
I'm sorry, but how is calling a sport where the foot rarely touches the ball football 'less-confusing'?
If you look up the history of Soccer and American Football, you will find that American Football came first. What we refer to as football has the right to the name first. Calling soccer football is stealing the name. American Football was called football before Soccer existed. Though it's only by a few years.
I've always wondered why is American football called _foot_ball when the players are carrying the ball in their hands. Yeah, I know they occasionally stop to kick the ball too, but most of the time it is carried in hands.
Sorry to nitpick, but Americo Vespucci was also Italian, not Spaniard. And as far as I know, he never came to the land now know as the USA, so even the "American" in American Football is debatable.
Sorry, I don't get you... a weak argument for what?
Vespucci did come to America, only it was South America and not North America. He was a cartographer sent by the Spanish crown to map the "New World", and he was the one who realized that it was a whole new continent, and not some part of Asia as Columbus thought. (Columbus' calculations for the distance to Asia were way off).
Therefore, Americo Vespucci was the one who actually "discovered" America (the continent), so it was eventually named after him.
Well thank for the high school history lesson;) but I really am not too worried about where Vespucci did or did not come. The fact is that in common usage the term "America" refers to the United States. So the term "American Football" logically applies to the sport that "Americans" call football.
The fact is that in common usage the term "America" refers to the United States.
Hummm... please forgive my stubbornness, but... precisely the point of the whole football vs soccer issue is that "common usage" is not really common at all, meaning not universal.
In the USA, the term "America" refers to the United States. In other places, "America" refers to the continent, and people from other "American" countries call themselves "American". When referring to U.S. citizens, they use other terms.
I agree with you. In one sport, a spherical object (a ball) is mainly propelled by the feet of the players.
In the other sport, a pointy object that isn't even oval shaped (called by some a ball, but that's pushing the definition of ball way too much) is only occasionally kicked, and is almost always carried or thrown by the players' arms.
Obviously, if one of these sports is to be called football, it's the first one (and most of the world does just that).
It is relevant because we have two mayor games that share the same name (football). One is fully described by it's name, and the other one isn't. Which one should keep the name?
Sports don't have to be described by their names but it's really useful (basketball, baseball, athletism...), and it's awfully confusing when the name describes a different thing.
Regarding cricket [upe.ac.za]: Wherever the name 'cricket' came from - and from the various theories 'cricce', Anglo-Saxon for a stick, is the generally accepted or
Congratulations on your Score 5, Flamebait. Take a picture of that for posterity.
Now get over it. The US is not the only country that refers to that sport as Soccer. While most of the rest of the world refers to it as futbol or some variant thereof, that doesn't mean that suddenly the US should rename one of it's most popular sports, which developed at roughly the same time and carries with it large entrenc
1869 Rutgers and Princeton played a college soccer football game, the first ever, November 6. The game used modified London Football Association rules. During the next seven years, rugby gained favor with the major eastern schools over soccer, and modern football began to develop from rugby.
1876 At the Massasoit convention, the first rules for American football were written. Walter Camp, who would become known as the father of American football, first became involved with the game.
So, American Football (Gridiron) is based on Rugby, which is a sibling of Football (the game where you kick the ball all the time).
Soccer is a Marxest game characterized by its... lack of specialization of labor
You don't play it, do you? Put two defenders up front, and you'll be lucky to score: fill your back row with strikers, and your goalie will be very busy.
Damn, I coulda used one of those in the tournament my team just lost:-) Seriously, though, how long do you think till we pay to watch these things play games?
We've had simulated sports for years - EA's FIFA series let you simulate entire world cup tournaments. Yes, it may seem like an attractive proposition - the cost would be less since there are no arrogant prima donnas demanding millions. However, until you can give the robots the flair and personality of human athletes, it just won't catch on.
Hell, I can simulate player personalities right here.
Commentator: "What's your strategy going into the second half?"
Robo-player: "Well, we just weren't scoring enough points was the problem. We're gonna try to play hard and score some more goals than we did in the first half."
Commentator: "All right."
I don't think the soccer-playing robot would have too much trouble doing a retarded dance in the end zone, so I think we're set.
The real challenge will be to teach robots to make terrible jokes and use th
This little guy is impressive. I couldn't get a lot of information from the website, but it looks to be controlled by computer. But, how autonomous is it? Im sure it won't look as good as the programmable, but I would like to see if it can do all of these things as an autonomous robot. As long as the slashdot effect isn't immediate, you should view the videos of the robot picking up the ball and throwing it overhanded, also, the one of him doing a handstand is incredible. Why can't asimo [honda.com] do all of this yet?
i agree completely. i was AMAZED at how flexable it was and how aware it appeared to be of its own balance and physics in general. do you think its completely remote controlled? i would image it would need one very complex control or two operators.
I can imagine the toy company new product people wetting their pants over this little guy.
You'll notice Asimo was designed to look and act like a human, while this soccer robot was designed to 1) identify ball, and 2) move ball to goal. Asimo is supposed to interact with humans and have more autonomous thinking than just moving a ball around. Not to mention the surface area of those feet and hands looks to be about 300% comparitively by size with the Asimo.
automonous humanoid robot Robovie-M can... even demonstrate shame
Is shame *really* what we want in a robot?
After all, there's no shame liking wetting oneself... it's bad enough when a child wets his/her pants or bed, but when a robot does it, the result could be short circuits or worse.
There's a big difference between demonstrating shame and feeling shame. It's a pretty paltry feature compared to the ability to automate its motions so well. I wonder how well it'll do in the RoboCup?
I remain convinced the robots are pretending to be ashamed of what they have done so that the other ones can slaughter every unwitting human in the stands.
I don't know. Some AC was just lambasted for not demonstrating proper empathy regarding the dangers of living on the creaky ISS. I think people tend to value emotional displays far more than the actual emotions behind them.
Im actually a student at Carnegie mellon University where we have our own teams of robotic soccer players, ranging from cute little Sony Aibos dogs that pwn in international Aibo dog soccer competitions ( not kidding! )to an up and comming segway team!
check it out here [cmu.edu]
The CSE department [washington.edu] at the University of Washington [washington.edu] also has Aibo robots and participates in RoboCup. More information here [washington.edu].
I went to a presentation of the robots for a robotics course (not the RoboCup team, however) last quarter, and it was extremely interesting seeing how the robots work and what they could do. They appear to run a custom Unix-like or Unix OS by Sony, and one of the students remarked how they could telnet into the dogs for debugging or development (?) purposes.
I think the point of this little robot is that it is amazingly dexterous... far moreso than any other advanced bipedal design I have seen. It plays soccer, and can probably whup up on many soccer bots, but would struggle against wheeled or 4+ legged bots. The little soccer matches that occur between robot developers is just a good way for a lab to get their advancements noticed and (most importantly) funded. My point is, Carnegie Mellon may win the cup, but this little guy could likely recieve a mulit-bill
Hmm. The site is still playing it straight. I agree it's pretty much a fake site, though I don't know about the marketing angle. Might be, might not be.
Funny he's still playing it as if it's real, though.
"Now, the Transformers are set to undergo yet another metamorphosis, this one bringing them to the silver screen. Sure, they've been there before (back in 1986), but this new movie will be special; it will be live action!"
Now go back and look at the page the parent post links to...
This little guy shows that as far as the goal of a fully working robotic (human-avatar) intelligence, mechanistically we're there. We can create an avatar which is robust enough to do the full human movements. Now we just need to improve the AI side of things. Let's face it, AI is severly lacking at the moment. I wouldn't say I'm an expert by any means, but I do try to keep up with the relevant research in the field.
Most experts agree the real test of artificial intelligence is, of course, found in game theory, with chess programs in particular gaining a lot of attention and publicity because of their year on year increase in performance thanks to better and better AI. But these certainly aren't quite up to scratch - a good example is a game I played just 10 minutes ago against the computer at so-called "Intermediate II" level.
I find most computer chess programs good at opening moves, because most have built in opening move databases (which I regard as cheating). I played the two knights defense as always, leading with 1....d4. The computer answered with its own two knights defense which is particularly annoying and insipid. That's one mark down for AI, mimicking human behaviour.
The trouble is chess AI is reactive rather than proactive and so whereas I was working to take down the right flank of the computers defence using a Queen bishop rook combo, it was just skirmishing around the centre to take a few pawns off me. Very poor AI.
Frankly, it's stategic thinking that the computer can't match us at, which was clear by move 27, where my move 27...KnC3-E4 forked a queen and rook. That sort of manouvering is quite obvious to the human intellect, and the advantage in points meant I went on to win the game quite comfortably again, with a rook v bishop endgame and quick checkmate.
Really all this just goes to illustrate that AI has a long way to go...I wouldn't say I was much more than a very good chess player.
This little guy shows that as far as the goal of a fully working robotic (human-avatar) intelligence, mechanistically we're there. We can create an avatar which is robust enough to do the full human movements. Now we just need to improve the AI side of things. Let's face it, AI is severly lacking at the moment. I wouldn't say I'm an expert by any means, but I do try to keep up with the relevant research in the field.
Ruh-eally. Did you watch the movies?
The robots had the dexterity and balance of, at best,
The problem is that, from what I can tell, all this robot does is play back previously recorded motions. The way these motions were derived was through a (probably rather long-winded and painstaking) process of trial and error. It probably went like: move foot forward 1mm - robot topples - repeat, now move foot 1mm to the right first... you can see this has nothing to do with intelligence. This is how asimo works as well, btw.
This robot can't react to it's environment. It has no sensors. If the environm
The over hand throw video was telling, as it took the robot several separate motions to position itself and wobbled about as much as is possible without falling over upon throwing the ball. The ball was thrown with no accuracy.
No offence, but unless you happen to be Kasparov, I'd suggest you should look for a better chess program before denoucing AI systems in general as being poor at chess.
Chess is a game very well suited to computers, and thus one that AI systems have rapidly become good at. If you want to see something AI really struggles with, take a look at the game of Go - as yet noone's come close to creating a Deep Blue of Go, as it's far more abstract and 'human' in it's mechanics than chess.
While we're at it, I'm pretty sure we're missing the point by arguing whether it is demonstrating the ability to play soccer or football, since it was in fact a contestant in Bandai's [bandai.co.jp] annual Robo-One [robo-one.com] where the goal was to have little anthropomorphic [robo-one.com] (.PNG) robots pummel [itmedia.co.jp] (.MPG) the crap [itmedia.co.jp] (.MPG) out of each other to win by TKO. Dig around the sites and you'll find piles of highly entertaining videos.
For those of you who can't stomach anthropomorphic robot on anthropomorp
If you're beating a chess program, it must be an obsolete one. Get
Deep Fritz [chessbase.com], for only $112. This is the program that tied Kasparov 2:2, running on a 4-CPU desktop machine.
Unless your picture has been on the cover of Chess Life, Deep Fritz will trounce you.
George Steinbrenner just could not allow the Red Sox to pick up the little robot and round out their rotation. Apparently, TV's Vicky from "Small Wonder" is also in talks with the NY baseball franchise as is D.A.R.Y.L.
Correction, if it runs windows It would make an exciting Offensive player... but it would frequently take breaks on plays instead of working defense... and occationally it would randomly take itself out of the game if there was too much going on.
There are competions in the US that use the Sony Aibos to play soccer. (Ok, so Aibo's Japanese)There's even a "RoboCup American Open". Aibo's are cuter anyway.
Clicky Clicky [columbia.edu]
I suppose it's all part of the ultimate [robocup.org] goal of developing a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer
Also can it snort mucas from one nostril, tell the newspapers about its gambling problem, be photographed with hookers? How's its gang rape programming?
These questions must be answered before we can evaluate whether this is truly a robotic footballer.
I bet the boys down at DARPA are drooling at this little robot performing the "punch". If they built a 10ft tall version, I wonder if it could run across the desert, off-trail, at 40mph? Throw a couple rail-guns on it's arms and DARPA would blow it's load.
Soccer game, football game, Wargame, what's the difference?
Does anyone else get that feeling that the US and Europe are about to play catch-up again? Right now we're at the technological level of atonomous vacuums, and japan is training their ambidextrous robotic armies on soccer. How long before Japan makes one that's 3 feet tall, terribly cute, and can wash the dishes (with a stepstool)? While our educational institutions are doing research with an eye for immediate military applications, Japan has been doing pure research for the past twenty years, and it is
The West Indies need some of these robots, providing they can be taught to play cricket. In fact, we would benefit from them even if they can't be taught to play cricket! As it stands, my dog [anjo.com] would make a grand addition to the team, because he can catch the ball. OK, he can't bat worth shit, but neither can any of the current team members...
on detail. Does anyone know how you program this thing?
Depending upon the sophistication of tools they might or might not have, it could be relatively easy or suck large.
And what about the cost? I couldn't really find anything, but several sites note that these things are indeed for sale.
Apparently they are selling two different robots [atr.co.jp], and also have one that is designed to be covered in material approximating human skin. That one can
I'm sorry, I forgot to dumb it down for ya. It is "do more". I just figured if you were a southpaw you would get it. Sorry for confusing you. In the future I will remember yuor handicap.
Where are the (Score:5, Funny)
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OK, but what about the hooligans ? (Score:2, Insightful)
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Americans may not like soccer, but at least they have a better less-confusing name for it.
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(In short: yes, I agree with you).
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Vespucci did come to America, only it was South America and not North America. He was a cartographer sent by the Spanish crown to map the "New World", and he was the one who realized that it was a whole new continent, and not some part of Asia as Columbus thought. (Columbus' calculations for the distance to Asia were way off).
Therefore, Americo Vespucci was the one who actually "discovered" America (the continent), so it was eventually named after him.
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Hummm... please forgive my stubbornness, but... precisely the point of the whole football vs soccer issue is that "common usage" is not really common at all, meaning not universal.
In the USA, the term "America" refers to the United States. In other places, "America" refers to the continent, and people from other "American" countries call themselves "American". When referring to U.S. citizens, they use other terms.
This g
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In parts of Wales football means rugby.
In fact soccer is probably only called 'football' in England and Scotland (elsewhere it's futbol, calcio, etc)!
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I agree with you. In one sport, a spherical object (a ball) is mainly propelled by the feet of the players.
In the other sport, a pointy object that isn't even oval shaped (called by some a ball, but that's pushing the definition of ball way too much) is only occasionally kicked, and is almost always carried or thrown by the players' arms.
Obviously, if one of these sports is to be called football, it's the first one (and most of the world does just that).
The
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I dont see a lot of insects in a game of cricket, yet somehow people still understand what it means.
Yeesh.
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Sports don't have to be described by their names but it's really useful (basketball, baseball, athletism...), and it's awfully confusing when the name describes a different thing.
Regarding cricket [upe.ac.za]: Wherever the name 'cricket' came from - and from the various theories 'cricce', Anglo-Saxon for a stick, is the generally accepted or
Re:Sigh. (Score:1)
Speak English, and we'll call it football.
Deal?
Sincerely,
North America.
Congratulations on your Score 5, Flamebait. Take a picture of that for posterity.
Now get over it. The US is not the only country that refers to that sport as Soccer. While most of the rest of the world refers to it as futbol or some variant thereof, that doesn't mean that suddenly the US should rename one of it's most popular sports, which developed at roughly the same time and carries with it large entrenc
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NFL Chronology 1869-1910 [nfl.com]
Wanders off whistling, hands in pockets
Re:Sigh. (Score:5, Informative)
1869
Rutgers and Princeton played a college soccer football game, the first ever, November 6. The game used modified London Football Association rules. During the next seven years, rugby gained favor with the major eastern schools over soccer, and modern football began to develop from rugby.
1876
At the Massasoit convention, the first rules for American football were written. Walter Camp, who would become known as the father of American football, first became involved with the game.
So, American Football (Gridiron) is based on Rugby, which is a sibling of Football (the game where you kick the ball all the time).
Re:Ignorant mods (Score:3, Informative)
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US foreign policy does a fine job of that itself
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Re:U.S. Football Capitalist Game; Soccer Marxest G (Score:1)
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Re:Sigh. - Cowboys vs. Man. U. (Score:2)
Power vs. Speed.
bot games (Score:1)
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Re:bot games (Score:2, Funny)
Commentator: "What's your strategy going into the second half?"
Robo-player: "Well, we just weren't scoring enough points was the problem. We're gonna try to play hard and score some more goals than we did in the first half."
Commentator: "All right."
I don't think the soccer-playing robot would have too much trouble doing a retarded dance in the end zone, so I think we're set.
The real challenge will be to teach robots to make terrible jokes and use th
Re:bot games (Score:1)
But how autonomous? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:But how autonomous? (Score:2)
Anyone else think it looked like a mini-me version of Giant Robot?
Especially given all those strange arm movements and waving to the crowd, et al.
Re:But how autonomous? (Score:2)
I can imagine the toy company new product people wetting their pants over this little guy.
Asimo doesn't have boards for hands and feet (Score:2, Insightful)
Robot Shame (Score:1, Funny)
Is shame *really* what we want in a robot?
After all, there's no shame liking wetting oneself
-kgj
Re:Robot Shame (Score:5, Funny)
509 - Server Is Expressing Shame for not handling
slashdot load.
Big deal (Score:1, Offtopic)
Hmm (Score:4, Insightful)
There's a big difference between demonstrating shame and feeling shame. It's a pretty paltry feature compared to the ability to automate its motions so well. I wonder how well it'll do in the RoboCup?
Re:Hmm (Score:2, Funny)
"Awww, look! He's sad because he... MY FLESH!!"
Re:Hmm (Score:1)
Carnegie Mellon AIBOs pwn this (Score:5, Informative)
check it out here [cmu.edu]
Re:Carnegie Mellon AIBOs pwn this (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Carnegie Mellon AIBOs pwn this (Score:2)
Re:Carnegie Mellon AIBOs pwn this (Score:2)
Makes me wonder why we lost to CMU in last year's RoboCup '03.
*tongue in cheek*
On another note, I heard that Tucker was a former F16 pilot - any idea? I should say he is a damn cool guy, though.
Re:Carnegie Mellon AIBOs pwn this (Score:1)
thaen
Re:Carnegie Mellon AIBOs pwn this (Score:1)
The CSE department [washington.edu] at the University of Washington [washington.edu] also has Aibo robots and participates in RoboCup. More information here [washington.edu].
I went to a presentation of the robots for a robotics course (not the RoboCup team, however) last quarter, and it was extremely interesting seeing how the robots work and what they could do. They appear to run a custom Unix-like or Unix OS by Sony, and one of the students remarked how they could telnet into the dogs for debugging or development (?) purposes.
The robots themselves move
Re:Carnegie Mellon AIBOs pwn this (Score:2)
My point is, Carnegie Mellon may win the cup, but this little guy could likely recieve a mulit-bill
What about this? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:What about this? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What about this? (Score:1)
thaen
Re:What about this? (Score:2)
No.
How's that for a simple answer?
Re:What about this? (Score:1)
Funny he's still playing it as if it's real, though.
Re:What about this? (Score:3, Interesting)
"Now, the Transformers are set to undergo yet another metamorphosis, this one bringing them to the silver screen. Sure, they've been there before (back in 1986), but this new movie will be special; it will be live action!"
Now go back and look at the page the parent post links to...
Re:What about this? (Score:1)
OMG! Did you see the video where that 12 foot robot stopped the Land Rover in it's tracks!? I'm excited and a little freaked out at the same time.
I was just joking when I said they should make these 1ft robots 10 feet tall... bad joke I guess!
Patented moves (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but does it rip off its shirt after a cup-winning goal shot? Everyone knows that the crowd likes it when the players hamm it up.
(ducks, runs for cover)
and may even win the game... (Score:3, Funny)
With looks like that, they're sure to intimidate anyone who stands in their way.
Slashdotted already.... (Score:1)
Re:Slashdotted already.... (Score:1)
http://web.archive.org/web/20040403144150/http://
I'm impressed by this (Score:4, Insightful)
This little guy shows that as far as the goal of a fully working robotic (human-avatar) intelligence, mechanistically we're there. We can create an avatar which is robust enough to do the full human movements. Now we just need to improve the AI side of things. Let's face it, AI is severly lacking at the moment. I wouldn't say I'm an expert by any means, but I do try to keep up with the relevant research in the field.
Most experts agree the real test of artificial intelligence is, of course, found in game theory, with chess programs in particular gaining a lot of attention and publicity because of their year on year increase in performance thanks to better and better AI. But these certainly aren't quite up to scratch - a good example is a game I played just 10 minutes ago against the computer at so-called "Intermediate II" level.
I find most computer chess programs good at opening moves, because most have built in opening move databases (which I regard as cheating). I played the two knights defense as always, leading with 1....d4. The computer answered with its own two knights defense which is particularly annoying and insipid. That's one mark down for AI, mimicking human behaviour.
The trouble is chess AI is reactive rather than proactive and so whereas I was working to take down the right flank of the computers defence using a Queen bishop rook combo, it was just skirmishing around the centre to take a few pawns off me. Very poor AI.
Frankly, it's stategic thinking that the computer can't match us at, which was clear by move 27, where my move 27...KnC3-E4 forked a queen and rook. That sort of manouvering is quite obvious to the human intellect, and the advantage in points meant I went on to win the game quite comfortably again, with a rook v bishop endgame and quick checkmate.
Really all this just goes to illustrate that AI has a long way to go...I wouldn't say I was much more than a very good chess player.
Re:I'm impressed by this (Score:3, Insightful)
Ruh-eally. Did you watch the movies?
The robots had the dexterity and balance of, at best,
Re:I'm impressed by this (Score:4, Funny)
Can your three-year-old do this [vstone.co.jp]?
Re:I'm impressed by this (Score:3, Interesting)
This robot can't react to it's environment. It has no sensors. If the environm
Re:I'm impressed by this (Score:3, Funny)
Plus, it throws like a girl.
Re:I'm impressed by this (Score:4, Insightful)
Chess is a game very well suited to computers, and thus one that AI systems have rapidly become good at. If you want to see something AI really struggles with, take a look at the game of Go - as yet noone's come close to creating a Deep Blue of Go, as it's far more abstract and 'human' in it's mechanics than chess.
I'm pretty sure it's not an automaton. (Score:2)
While we're at it, I'm pretty sure we're missing the point by arguing whether it is demonstrating the ability to play soccer or football, since it was in fact a contestant in Bandai's [bandai.co.jp] annual Robo-One [robo-one.com] where the goal was to have little anthropomorphic [robo-one.com] (.PNG) robots pummel [itmedia.co.jp] (.MPG) the crap [itmedia.co.jp] (.MPG) out of each other to win by TKO. Dig around the sites and you'll find piles of highly entertaining videos.
For those of you who can't stomach anthropomorphic robot on anthropomorp
Upgrade your chess program (Score:2)
Unless your picture has been on the cover of Chess Life, Deep Fritz will trounce you.
Shame (Score:4, Funny)
Little Robot signs with NY Yankees for $73 million (Score:1)
OS? (Score:3, Funny)
- *BSD, it will be unexiting, but the best keeper the world has ever seen.
- Windows, it will be great, because games is the one area where Windows is better than everything else.
- MacOSX, it will look really good and get married to a Spice Girl. (I sure hope this does not mean David Beckham is dying.)
- Linux, you do not want to go near its fanatical followers.
Re:OS? (Score:1, Funny)
Shame (Score:3, Funny)
No. It's because nobody has bothered to give it any pants.
shame for a missed shot? (Score:1, Redundant)
Its ashamed because its naked!
I can see its parts!
Shame? (Score:3, Funny)
Is there an overzealous parent robot in the crowd yelling obscenities at the coach and screaming "Daddy didn't raise a loser!"
Obligitory mirror (Score:3, Informative)
http://outboxes.com/www.vstone.co.jp/e/rt01e.htm [outboxes.com]
Re:Obligitory mirror (Score:1)
No need to go to japan... (Score:1)
RoboCup (Score:1)
A Japanese Robot Demonstrating Shame?! (Score:3, Funny)
evolutionary (Score:1)
Legit? (Score:1)
Can it do sarongs, stupid haircuts, and roasting? (Score:2, Funny)
These questions must be answered before we can evaluate whether this is truly a robotic footballer.
The boys at DARPA (Score:1)
Soccer game, football game, Wargame, what's the difference?
Top-level Functions (Score:4, Funny)
-Take money
-Find ball
-Take money
-Move towards goal
-Take money
Game end:
-Return to changing rooms
-Overclock servos
-Refuse overclocking test
-Disqualified
-Take vacation
-Take money
-Have baby: name=[city|band|corporate product]
General:
-Take money
-Take knight-hood
Error Handling:
-Avoid tabloid photographers
-Avoid mid-season injuries
Additional: if (popularity > 10)
-Reality TV spin-off
-Reality TV spin-off
-Cameo
-Release single
Now watch _me_ demonstrate shame (Score:1)
That sinking feeling... (Score:2)
Heh (Score:1)
Gee, wonder what country that's from.
We need one. Or eleven. (Score:3, Funny)
Web page is light (Score:2)
Depending upon the sophistication of tools they might or might not have, it could be relatively easy or suck large.
And what about the cost? I couldn't really find anything, but several sites note that these things are indeed for sale.
Apparently they are selling two different robots [atr.co.jp], and also have one that is designed to be covered in material approximating human skin. That one can
Nifty stuff.
Re:Gooo . . (Score:2)
Re:Ah, so it can play soccer... (Score:1)
Ciao,
luigi
Re:right handed (Score:1, Flamebait)
Could what more? Are you a wannabe southpaw or are you a real one whose lefthandedness interferes with his ability to write proper English?
Re:right handed (Score:1)
Re:right handed (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Bots in action? (Score:1)
Re:Football (Score:1)