RoboCup 2013 is underway. Demonstrations and matches lasted for four days and now the finals are upon us.
Robot soccer teams from 40 countries are participating in the RoboCup 2013 tournament this week in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The organizers’ objective is “By mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, comply with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup.players.”
If you’ve never seen these robots play soccer, simulate human rescues, or assist humans then you are missing out on some great technology.