RoboCup is coming! RoboCop says, “no comment”
Actually, these biped soccer robots are very lame. They move very sloooooowly and fall over all the time. In contrast, the non-biped, wheeled and tracked robots in last years’ Robo-Cup were quite fast and exciting . The problem is almost none of the robot’s are self-thinking/self-guided—-it’s more like romote-control soccer. Meh. At least Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK, shows quite a bit of the action on Sunday afternoon TV.
TOKYO, JAPAN: Japanese robot venture Vstone’s new humanoid robot “VisiON Nexta”, 47.5cm in height and 3.1kg in weight, shows its abitity to kick a ball during a press preview in Tokyo 27 June 2005 on the upcoming RoboCup 2005 which will be held in Osaka in July.
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