Giant Soccer-Playing Robot

clipped from www.japanexport.net News on Japan dwp robot footballer The robot Ronaldo Independent robot creator Hajime Sakamoto created the Hajime 33 robot as the latest iteration of his entry into the annual RoboCup Japan Open robot soccer tournament in Osaka, Japan. But what makes this robot special is that it shows us a slightly more sophisticated aesthetic treatment of the robot's look than what is usually found at the event. clipped from www.cctv.com Japanese robot scientist unveils 2-metre long robot "Hajime 33" Battery operated "Hajime 33" stands 2-meters tall, weighs just 20 kilograms and is just 30 centimeters wide. The humanoid robot even plays soccer with his creator Hajime Sakamoto, as long as his battery life allows. Sakamoto has created several humanoid robots. clipped from www.cctv.com clipped from www.hajimerobot.co.jp clipped from www.youtube.com hajimerobot33 walk clipped from www.youtube.com hajimerobot33 kick

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1. News on Japan
2. Japanese robot scientist unveils 2-metre long robot "Hajime 33" CCTV-International
3. HAJIME ROBOT
4. YouTube - hajimerobot33 walk
5. YouTube - hajimerobot33 kick

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Soccer for Humanoid Robots

The Darmstadt Dribblers, a team of autonomous soccer playing robots developed by a research group of the Univeristy of Darmstadt, videos and some info.

clipped from robocup.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Darmstadt Dribblers clipped from www.youtube.com RoboCup 2008 Humanoid League: Cooperation and Teamplay by DD This video shows teamplay/cooperation and obstacle avoidance by the autonomous humanoid robots of the Darmstadt Dribblers team. The robots negotiate their roles via wifi, with the robot closest to the ball selecting the striker role and the other one staying back as supporter. Striker Isra then kicks the ball past the opponent and finally scores. After scoring the goal our robots can be seen cheering. Visit http://www.dribblers.de/ for further information, pictures and videos. clipped from www.youtube.com Humanoid robots show emotional reactions at RoboCup 2006 clipped from robocup.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Current Research Topics High performance locomotion Bionic robots and new actuators Software and control architectures tailored for heterogeneous teams of autonomous robots Lightweight robots described by low payload capabilities Robot localization Programming of robot and team behavior using discrete, hierarchical state automata GameController / Referee Box for RoboCup Humanoid League

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Nanosoccer

clipped from www.nist.gov Welcome to Nanosoccer! Imagine a mechanical Pelé or David Beckham six times smaller than an amoeba playing with a “soccer ball” no wider than a human hair on a field that can fit on a grain of rice. Purely science fiction? Not anymore. Microchip with Nanosoccer Fields of Play Nanosoccer Ball clipped from www.nist.gov A photograph of a typical nanosoccer robot compared in size to red blood cells. About 200 of these robots could stretch in a line across the top of a plain M&M candy. clipped from www.medgadget.com Video of a Nanosoccer Nanobot This is a follow up video to our post about the upcoming Nanosoccer 2008 US RoboCup Open. Folks over at Boing Boing Gadgets discovered this amazing video of a "tiny 'bot 'dribbling' a 'ball'."