Robocup is a collaboratively competitive venue for AI and Robotics research which also provides a display of robotic advancements for non-experts. The Humanoid league pushes the limits of robotic abilities. Autonomous robots with a human-like body plan and human-like senses play soccer against each other in order to explore new research in dynamic walking, limited sensing, and localization. RoboCup chose to use soccer as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and industries. The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is by 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer. This short documentary was filmed at the 2011 competition in Istanbul, Turkey.
Apr 052012