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Robotics Science

RoboCup 2007 Opens At Georgia Tech 52

Posted by kdawson from the kick-in-the-grass dept.
Craig writes "The 2007 installment of RoboCup has begun; individual events opened to the public today. RoboCup is an international robotics symposium and competition whose goal is to advance the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence to the point that in 2050 a robot soccer team can defeat the human world champions. This year, RoboCup is located on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, GA, marking the first time a university is hosting it and only the second time since it began in 1993 that it is located in the United States."
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  • "Defeat" (Score:3, Funny)

    by PsEvo ( 1075643 ) on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @05:16PM (#19735937)
    "point that in 2050 a robot soccer team can defeat the human world champions."

    Be rid of "soccer" and "champions" and you have an interesting article!

    • "point that in 2050 a robot soccer team can defeat the human world champions."

      Be rid of "soccer" and "champions" and you have an interesting article!
      No... that's not till 2058!
    • Not all RoboCup robots are humanoid though.... Some are small wheeled robots with colored blobs on the top to ease their detection....

      Another league exists: FIRA [robocup-us.org]... FIRA's "RoboWorld Cup 2007" takes place between 14 and 17 July.... I'm actually doing a team's vision system... (not for the RoboWorld Cup though....)
      • There was also another class of competition using the Aibo dog robots. I don't know if they're still doing it or not.

        My univeristy was doing the small wheeled robot division. I kept getting asked to participate, but never had the time because I was also working. Instead, I got called in for trouble shooting and brain storming when I had the free time since I had experience that my friends in the competition didn't.
  • In 2050, I am going to get so fucking high and totally watch that game.

  • Good Times (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Got a chance to go to the 2005 games in Osaka Japan when we won second place in the small size league. That whole week of competition was intense.
  • Last week was the Robotics Science and Systems conference, also at GA Tech. Some of the biggest robotics researchers worldwide (such as the guy who lead the team that won the DARPA Grand Challenge last year) were all there to talk about the latest advances in the field... I think they were originally scheduled to be the same weekend; oh well.
    • They were in fact scheduled to coincide but you don't want them to actually overlap and make people have to deal with time conflicts. RSS [roboticsconference.org] was Wednesday through Saturday and as soon as it ended everybody who was involved in it could begin to focus on preparing for RoboCup which officially commenced yesterday (Monday).

  • Robots (Score:5, Funny)

    by mhannibal ( 1121487 ) on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @05:45PM (#19736301)
    "to the point that in 2050 a robot soccer team can defeat the human world champions" That'll primarily be due to the freakin' laser beams attached to their heads...

  • RoboCup coverage (Score:3, Informative)

    by MaelstromX ( 739241 ) * on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @05:46PM (#19736323)
    Having submitted this story (yes that's me up there) I thought this deserved a mention since Slashdot has reported on RoboCup in the past (2001 [slashdot.org], 2002 [slashdot.org]) 2004 [slashdot.org], 2006 [slashdot.org]).

    I'm also covering this for our campus newspaper (click my name above for the preview article in last week's issue), so if anybody has anything they wanted to know or see pictures of let me know and I can try to make it happen. As I was bogged down with classes today I haven't seen any of the robots compete yet (although last week I "met" some still-unfinished robots being built by Georgia Tech students) but I intend to spend at least a few hours there tomorrow and every day the rest of the week.

    (BTW, is anybody on here a participant in the event?)

    • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

      by pooya ( 878915 )
      If you like to know what Robocup is about. Watch this wmv video of the highlights of Robocup 2005 [robocup.org] in Osaka.
    • Yep, I'm on the Northern Bites, the 4-legged league team from Bowdoin College, ME.

      Games are under way, and we've seen some interesting play so far. Some of our league's team sites are:
      • http://robocup.bowdoin.edu/blog (please don't crash it!)
      • http://nubots.blogspot.com/
      • http://www.germanteam.org/tiki-index.php
      • http://www.microsoft-hellhounds.de/en/
      • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robosoccer/legged/
      • http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~AustinVilla/?p=home

      The world cup site is http://www.robocup- [robocup-us.org]

    • A friend of mine was working with the GA Tech Small (soccer-playing) robot division, but we're out of town right now (until Friday). Here are lots of pictures [flickr.com] and a schedule [robocup-us.org] though, for those in the Atlanta area or looking for updates. We'll post some "before" GA Tech pictures to that gallery sometime soon, too.
  • Wow! I love symposia.

  • The old school (Score:2, Offtopic)

    by Deadstick ( 535032 )
    Georgia Tech is doing some cool stuff with aerial robotics:

    http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/atas/teams/aerialroboti cs.html [gatech.edu]

    Kinda wish I was there now instead of 1962...;-)

    rj

  • Participant (Score:4, Informative)

    by Spearhawk ( 744763 ) on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @07:22PM (#19737289) Homepage
    First perhaps I should mention that RoboCup isn't only about football (soccer), although it's a majority, but also has leagues in rescue and a fairly new one called @home. I'm a participant on the rescue league (part of the Swedish team from Uppsala) and so far I can say that none of us is very impressed with Georgia Tech's handling of the cup. To start with there is no internet at the competition and development area which causes a lot of inconveniency whenever you need something of it (which is quite often). You'll either have to use the paid services one floor down, which I clocked to an amazing 700 byte per second when I tried to download the Linux headers I needed for driver installation, or walk at least five minutes to the dorms where the net is ok but you can't really do that every time you want to look something up. Secondly they don't seem to be able to keep the power up for more than a few hours at a time, it can go down quite unexpectedly without warnings. While this isn't much of a problem for my team seeing as we use only laptops and battery powered devices it is a real bother for many of the teams which uses normal stationary computers and other such devices. Being a student I never been to another RoboCup world cup (although I was at the German Open) but my teachers assures us that they never seen anything like this before. It is quite a bit of bad publicity for Georgia Tech.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by I82Much ( 841866 )
      I agree completely. I'm participating in the Four legged league and on the first day, the lighting was absolutely atrocious. Rules specify that the field must be lit to 1000 lux; in the corners the lighting was more like 250 lux. We got some more lights yesterday, but the fields still aren't lit very evenly.

      Even worse, the room we're all coding in is lit by 20 watt bulbs so it's ridiculously dark, except for the glare of computer screens

    • Re: (Score:1, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward
      I'm also a past participant (about 3 years) from a few years ago.

      There used to be a lot more innovation than what we see now and I'm not sure if that is because ideas have been perfected or if new rules are preventing teams from straying too far from the norm. I know of quite a few Universities which used to be part of Robocup but quit ~3 years ago because they lacked interest/students/funding (yes, it is very expensive).

      In 2050 I'm guessing that RoboCup will be similar to Forumla 1 car racing in that they
      • Well, if there are no limits, somebody should see me about my robot soccer team concept. 1. RoboGoalie is slightly taller than the goals and slightly wider than the goals, and is made of completely solid material. Now all you need to do is come up with a robot that can kick _one_ goal in 90 minutes.......
    • I've participated in RoboCup in the 3D-Simulation league from 2004 to 2006.

      Having no internet access is really a bad thing, and the only time that this happened when I participated was in Lisbon '04. They had only 255 IP addresses, which worked well the first two days. But when all of the about 1700 people were on site, the network broke down ;)

      2005 in Osaka and 2006 in Bremen worked very well on this infrastructural things

      I've never heard about power outtakes at RoboCup competitions. This must be even wors

  • Pictures, Video, and Commentary (Score:4, Informative)

    by hizook ( 1123615 ) on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @09:15PM (#19738441)
    I was actually a volunteer there yesterday during the team-practice session. I have some pictures and videos of the event at Hizook.com [hizook.com].
  • When I read through some of the replies I get the feeling that people may perceive this competition as a pointless little toy problem. And you are partly right - it is a toy problem. But it is far from being pointless one.

    To me (and I assume most of the other participants), RoboCup is about something else entirely. It is about developing new technologies on a complete systems level. Apart from finding some neat hardware solutions ranging from simple wheels to dynamic humanoid gaits the more interesting o
  • Here is the video of the Humanoid Soccer Final: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICgL1OWsn58 [youtube.com] In the match the titleholder Team Osaka (Japan) met team NimbRo from Freiburg University (Germany). The same two teams had met in the two previous years. The 2007 final was one of the best humanoid soccer games ever, if not the best. Team Osaka played with one goalie and one field player while NimbRo used two field players. The Osaka robots were very quick to approach the ball and to kick it across the field. The Ni

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