22 thoughts on “Los robots que juegan al fútbol

  1. The real breakthrough will be in all-robot crowds, which can presumably be programmed neither to get bored nor to riot during a 0-0 snoozefest.Report

      1. Some key players got hurt (Vogelsang, Pagan, Scutaro) and some others who had been playing over their heads (Blanco, Belt, Zito [1]) came back to earth. That’s enough to turn close victories into close (and sometime not-so-close) losses.

        1. For Zito, being a barely acceptable fifth starter was over his head.Report

    1. I’m sure they’ve recorded this for future reference.

      Seriously though, watch the video of those 4-legged ones (it’s less than 2 minutes). They’re adorable, in a creepy way, right? Who can not like them? And the cute little standard platform guys? You can almost forget that they’re going to destroy us all.Report

    1. Heh… in most of the RoboCup leagues, the hardware is standard, everyone gets the same robots, and the goal is to create the best soccer AI. I can’t imagine that some teams haven’t been tempted to tweak the hardware, though, maybe add some more flexible joints, or make the legs stronger, or something. It’s only a matter of time until someone gets banned for life.Report

      1. I have spent the bulk of my adult life among some of the nerdiest people on the planet, but I have never met people as nerdy as the ones who make soccer-playing dog robots. So yeah.Report

      1. In the general sense, I can understand that feeling. It’s somewhat less sympathetic in this case, though, when you’re talking about taking from an open source program, which he could have legally borrowed under the GPL, but instead decided to violate the GPL by closing the code and lying about his sources.Report

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