RoboCup 2006

Posted by bordalix Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:09:00 GMT

RoboCup is an international joint project to promote AI, robotics, and related field. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. RoboCup chose to use soccer game as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and industries. The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is By 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer.

This year tournament was held in Bremen, Germany, and here is one video (3m53s) covering a little bit of every competition:

If you want to, you can watch all the videos from the tournament, or learn more about this in the RoboCup website. See you in Atlanta 2007.

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Portugal vs Mexico

Posted by bordalix Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:57:00 GMT

The country stops every time there is a Portugal game. Tomorrow, Portugal will play against Mexico in the World Cup, but if you want to watch a preview of the game, the Simpsons give it to you:

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