Robot Competitions

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INTRODUCTION SLOW SOCCER soccer player slowly takes tiny steps toward an orange ball and Athen gives the ball a soft kick It slowly rolls toward the net But the goalie hardly even reacts This might sound like a pretty boring soccer game But what if you knew the players were actually robots and this game was an international championship game The RoboCup is a robot competition that invites scientists and inventors to experiment with new technologies in a fun way Teams build and program robots to play against one another Eventually roboticists hope to build a team of robots that can compete against and even beat human World Cup champions Those who compete at RoboCup share computer software robot designs and other good ideas with one another to help develop better robots One day you just might see humans playing robots against