Build Your Own Soccer-Playing Robot

An anonymous reader writes "This article by a Ph.D student at Shanghai JiaoTong University (SJTU) Research Institute of Robotics describes an RTLinux-powered robot that placed fifth in the most recent RoboCup competition. The robot has two color cameras for visual sensing along with a laser range finder (LRF) for goalkeeper location, and a wireless LAN allows communication among the robots on SJTU's team. The robot's embedded operating system is Red Hat Linux enhanced with the RTLinuxPro real-time extension."

Linux 1, Microsoft Nil

[tiktok]

They were experimenting with robot soccer players that ran on Windows, but unfortunately they couldn't get them to run for 90 minutes straight.

Robo-Fans.

[Anonymous Coward]

Are they going to build robot fans that tear up the town when their team loses?

Re:Linux 1, Microsoft Nil

[billsoxs]

So did the robots turn blue and die or did the OS need to be reloaded?

Re:Linux 1, Microsoft Nil

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL. Even Microsoft's own gaming development company made fun of the Blue screen in Halo 2 Zanzibar map.

Maradonabot & Obligatory Futurama

[bildungsroman_yorick]

After the robots done performing it's primary objective is the secondary objective becoming a fat, cocaine snorting Hedonismbot?

Andres Escobar

[Michael Hunt]

Now all we gotta do is wait for this thing to score an own goal and it'll get shot at the airport on its way home.

I love soccer fans :)

What's next?

[GuyMannDude]

First we got robot soldiers and now we got robot soccer players. What we really need are robotic Mexican soccer announcers:

cout << "He shoots!" << endl;
cout << "He scores!" << endl;
cout << "G";
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; ++i)
{
cout << "o";
}
cout << "al!" << endl;

GMD

Re:Soccer cyborgs

[Tellalian]

I hardly think kicking rocket launchers at people will be an effective military strategy.

I can see it now...

[Berserker76]

01000111 01001111 01000001 01001100 00100001 00100001 00100001 00100001 00100001 00100001 (GOAL!!!!!!)

The robot wont overtake real soccer players

[Timesprout]

Until they build a robot that obsesses about its appearance and is embarassingly caught shagging the nanny robot.

They build an expensive robot that indulges in some high frequency snorting to improve its 'off the field' performance.

They build another expensive robot that 'forgets' to turn up for mandatory checks and goes shopping instead.

A robot admits it tried to deliberately damage another robot in a revenge tackle.

Slapper robots are developed which can be 'roasted' by the football robots.

One of the new generation super robots is photographed leaving a brothel populated by pvc wearing granny robots (probably the current robots recycled a few times).

LRF = Laser Range Finder?

[Aaron Denney]

I always thought it mean "Little Rubber Feet".