BBC - Robots compete in football league >> Robot Dogs playing football at the
2005 Robot Games has become the robotic version of the football World Cup and is a where robot researchers chew the fat.
This year's US Open had 30 teams made up of 200 researchers who battled it out in the three-day robot games.
Of the five events, robot dog football remains the most popular.
In it, computer-programmed
Sony Aibos look for the ball using cameras on their noses, communicate with each other over a wireless network and attempt to score goals, with the exception of the specially-programmed goalkeeping dog.
QPR Blog Comment >> I think we should sign one of these football playing robots and play it next to Shittu because we are sure finding it hard to get Shittu a decent partner to play back there, with Santos filling in in midfeild and up front so often.
Posted at 6:03 PM, Sunday, May 29, 2005