RoboCup 2010: Part Machine. Part Footballer. All Awesome.

May 6th, 2010 | by: chris |

While most will be hanging on to ever call in South Africa, all the cool kids will be heading to Singapore for the real World Cup: RoboCup 2010. Like the real World Cup, but for robots. With the entire aim to defeat humans by 2050, and then take over the world. But not before their goalkeepers improve their positioning.

The Japan Open 2010 is currently happening in anticipation of the World Cup next month, which is drawing huge crowds. And because robots are so damn efficient, the RoboCup will only take 7 days rather than the month of SA2010. Stupid humans.

I defy you not to watch these videos, including the greatest counterattack known to man after the break, and book your ticket to Singapore.

One of the qualification videos, in which one must be able to get up off the ground from multiple positions under their own power. Cristiano Ronaldo can’t even do that. And it was apparently named after his Real teammate, Karim Benzema. (Too soon?)

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RoboERECTUS? Really? Anyway, it’s amazing!
http://www.worldcupblog.org Daryl

Those goalkeepers are hilarious.
Mustafa

That goalie is definitely better than Fabianski
http://www.mcalcio.com/ Marco P.

Touché Mustafa.
Awesome vids btw. Chris you forgot to mention these robots are completely autonomous it seems. That is, there’s no hidden puppeteer armed with remote controls.