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  • Videos: Watch Japanese soccer robots scoring “spectacular” goals

    Videos: Watch Japanese soccer robots scoring “spectacular” goals

    Remember the soccer-playing humanoid we've shown you Monday? Well, the “RoboCup Japan Open 2010″ [JP] he was taking part in during the last few days ended yesterday, but not before the yet to be named robot showed off his (limited) skills as a goalkeeper. And he faced an (apparently) stronger adversary.

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  • New Japanese soccer robot shows the way to human-less sports is still long

    New Japanese soccer robot shows the way to human-less sports is still long

    The "RoboCup Japan Open 2010" [JP] is currently taking place in Osaka, and the world's biggest robot soccer tournament has attracted 225 teams from all over the world this time. Started in 1997, the official goal of the RoboCup is to have a team of humanoids play and defeat a team comprised of human soccer players during a "real" world soccer cup sometime around 2050. But judging from what we can see currently, there is still a long way to go. Take the humanoid you can see on the picture and in the video embedded below, for example. It's taking part in the RoboCup 2010 Humanoid League's adult size class, meaning it competes against other robots that stand between 130 and 160cm tall.

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  • Arudino DIY Football Hero

    Arudino DIY Football Hero

    Playing guitar with your hands is so 4 years ago. So this team of DIYers and soccer football players crafted the first ever, wall mounted, full sized, football hero. The control pads are large piezo sensors controlled with the Arduino electronics platform. But let the video do the talking.

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