Robots replace of living football players - VIDEOThe annual world championship in football among the robots passes these days in the Chinese city of Hefei, allows a glimpse into a future in which instead of people chase the ball on the grass of the machine. It is obvious that players like Messi or Ronaldo is nothing to worry about. After all, how robots play, impossible to watch without laughing. However, the ultimate goal of RoboCup - to bring this team railways guys that can not only survive in the game with professional football players, people, but also defeat them.
This year, the RoboCup championship involved 45 countries. Competitions are held in several categories: small robots, humanoid robots and medium-sized cars. A separate competition involving virtual robots without a hardware component, or, in other words, of the program.
The first international football tournament among the robots was held in 1997. Although over the years, and progress has been made, the machine continues to behave very awkward and constantly falling. The real problem for the robot is to perform several tasks. First, the machine should detect the ball, then get to it and hitting the.
To complicate the competition, the organizers of a bed artificial surface that simulates real grass, and used to play white ball that robots more difficult to discern.
The game is full of moments when the robots clung to each other down, trying to hit the ball. In the championship intentionally missing red and yellow cards, warning players about the abuse. However, this did not prevent RoboCup gain more popularity. Last year's championship has collected more than 3,000 spectators.
RoboCup organizers hope by 2050 to create a team of robots capable to beat the winners of the World Cup among men.
Ten years ago, this task seemed exigeant. But over the last decade it has been made a breakthrough that makes this possible - said Professor Daniel Polani (Daniel Polani) from the University of Hertfordshire in England.
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