Miscellaneous

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/nwefNs-PrDA

Robocup: The robot football world championship gets underway in the Netherlands

Published on Jun 27, 2013


The Robocup robot football world championship has kicked off in the Netherlands. Over 2,500 contestants from around 40 countries are expected to compete in this year's Robocup championship where robots battle without assistance from humans, in a bid to develop new technology.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/goDYKkohf7s

[Robolink] Soccer Goalie Robot by Akshay

Published on Sep 2, 2014


This is a Soccer Goalie Robot built by 5th grader Akshay.

Akshay created a friend for our soccer robot. He created a goalie robot that strafes left and right to prevent balls from going inside its goal. Driven by his passion for soccer and robotics, Akshay came up with a creative way to combine those two passions. Check out his robot in the picture below and if you want to see it in action just click on the link below.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/t2Ic6iGLmvc

2.12: Introduction to Robotics at MIT

Published on Apr 13, 2015


In this year’s Class 2.12: Introduction to Robotics, taught by Professor Harry Asada and Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi, undergraduate students joined forces to build a robot that could emulate complex human movement in a soccer-themed final competition, pushing the boundaries of their mathematics, physics, and mechanical engineering know-how.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/UufujhDKmq0

PARVUS plays football

Published on Apr 25, 2015

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/45PgaSkNao8

Robot soccer with Vortex (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?11474)

Published on Aug 9, 2015


Play robot soccer anytime, anywhere.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/qMz-c2nUeMo

HR OS1 Soccer

Published on Sep 19, 2015


bahahahaha my 2nd iMove trailer =P This is Chap training for his robocup dreams. No GOOOALs yet but we'll get there.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/BCiJrLj0nY8

uArm play football with XBox One Controller

Published on Nov 18, 2015

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/L7aqhm6XVg0

Meccanoid (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?9830) kills it at soccer practice

Published on Dec 19, 2015


Build your own, personal, wisecracking best friend! Meccanoind G15 is your very own 2 foot tall robot.

With its amazing voice recognition capabilities and over a thousand pre-programmed phrases, comments and witty comebacks, it can tell jokes and play games!

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/IC5x7ftJ96w

DVS robo goalie

Uploaded on Sep 22, 2008


This robotic goalie uses a spike-event based silicon retina to track the balls and block them.

[Airicist]

Article "Why football, not chess, is the true final frontier for robotic artificial intelligence (https://theconversation.com/why-football-not-chess-is-the-true-final-frontier-for-robotic-artificial-intelligence-62296)"

by Daniel Polani
July 13, 2016

[Airicist]

Article "How we evolved a winning strategy for the RoboCup competition by imitating nature (https://robohub.org/how-we-evolved-a-winning-strategy-for-the-robocup-competition-by-imitating-nature)"

by Mikhail Prokopenko
September 1, 2016

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/SliwCMZd4R4

Referee Robonaut: football signals

Published on Jan 31, 2017


Can you guess the football signals Robonaut is doing? He's designed to perform complex tasks and use the same tools astronauts use.

Robonaut is a dexterous humanoid robot built and designed at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Our challenge is to build machines that can help humans work and explore in space. Working side by side with humans, or going where the risks are too great for people, Robonauts will expand our ability for construction and discovery. Central to that effort is a capability we call dexterous manipulation, embodied by an ability to use one's hand to do work, and our challenge has been to build machines with dexterity that exceeds that of a suited astronaut.

Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), in collaboration with General Motors and Oceaneering, have designed a state-of-the-art, highly dexterous, humanoid robot: Robonaut 2 (R2). R2 is made up of multiple component technologies and systems -- vision systems, image recognition systems, sensor integrations, tendon hands, control algorithms, and much more. R2's nearly 50 patented and patent-pending technologies have the potential to be game-changers in multiple industries, including logistics and distribution, medical and industrial robotics, and beyond.

Robonaut (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?882), humanoid robot

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/mqIrAUvjel4

Outsmart the Goalie in VR Soccer

Published on May 10, 2018


We collaborated with the "Captain Tsubasa" animated series to create a virtual reality soccer game that feels real.

[Airicist]

Article "This AI Simulated the 2018 World Cup 100,000 Times to Predict a Winner (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zm8898/2018-world-cup-winner-ai-prediction)"
A group of researchers used AI and machine learning to predict that Spain and Germany are the most likely winners of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
June 13, 2018

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/XOKNyH5J29Q

Published on Jul 7, 2018


Today we play robot soccer with the all new SOCCER BORG! This fun kit features two robots, a set of goals and balls! With the ability to kick two different ways and change from offense to dribble mode, its a lot of fun!

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/RSYshQdcjYM

Sporty software: AI learns to play table soccer (https://www.bosch.com/explore-and-experience/bend-it-like-bosch)

Published on Jul 10, 2018


Human against machine: The two can also go head to head in table football. In Bosch’s AI table soccer game, goals are scored by artificial intelligence. It improves with every practice session — there’s nothing better than strong opponents.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/f-Bgi4NeCBA

How to make amazing football game - Penalty Football Board GAME

Published on Jul 12, 2018

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/DGotRiOUNx8

ETH robots in World Cup fever

Published on Jul 13, 2018


On Sunday, Croatia and France are playing for the 2018 World Cup title. Our robots have also been infected by the worldwide football hype. The quadrupedal ANYmal has been training diligently in the last weeks and learned how to kick.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/nhjY_0Ju9FA

Let's play soccer! - Fable (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=18112) Spin

Published on Jan 14, 2019

[Airicist]

Article "Man Vs. Machine: Is Soccer Ready For Artificial Intelligence? (https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertkidd/2019/08/02/man-vs-machine-is-soccer-ready-for-artificial-intelligence)"

by Robert Kidd
August 2, 2019

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/GenK12ThYWk

Super Goalie (Basic)

Oct 1, 2019

A simple implementation of a goalkeeper artficial intelligence in Unity 3D

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/qN7umlE4ZmQ

August 22, 2019


Two different artificial neural networks battling each other in a simple game of soccer. I am using deep reinforcement learning to train the neural nets. Everything shown here is made in Unity3D.

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/G6fMV1UPzkg

Testing 9 new Mini Cheetahs

Nov 6, 2019


Playing with our 9 new mini cheetah robots in Killian Court

MIT Cheetah (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=8124), bio-inspired quadruped robot, MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

[Airicist]

Article "Football was slow to embrace data. Now AI is eating the beautiful game (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/football-data)"
Acronis is storing the data of the best and brightest of European football. Now, it wants to use that to help them win games

by Gian Volpicelli
June 17, 2020

[Airicist]

Article "Mediapro and IBM launch AI-based video highlights platform (https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/mediapro-and-ibm-launch-ai-based-video-highlights-platform)"

by Adam Nelson
June 26, 2020

[Airicist]

Article "Discovering The Next Generation Of Soccer Talent Through AI And The Amateur Game (https://www.forbes.com/sites/drgeraintevans/2021/01/31/discovering-the-next-generation-of-soccer-talent-through-ai-and-the-amateur-game)"

by Geraint Evans (https://www.linkedin.com/in/drgeraintevans)
January 31, 2021

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/KHMwq9pv7mg

From motor control to team play in simulated humanoid football

May 27, 2021


Skip to 4:09 for highlights of gameplay.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12196

0:00 Intro
0:20 Overview
1:00 Environment and Rules
1:51 Training
3:05 Imitation
3:20 Drills
4:09 Highlights
7:39 Outro

[Airicist]

https://youtu.be/gFAOyT1VC-Y

CMUnited, the team of robots developed by Manuela Veloso (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=7274)

Apr 14, 2021


This video from 1999 discusses the soccer robot research activities at Carnegie Mellon University. CMUnited, the team of robots developed by Manuela Veloso and her students, won the small-size competition in both 1997 and 1998.

[Airicist2]

Article "AI-powered technology will be used to speed up VAR offside calls at World Cup (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jul/01/fifa-ai-powered-technology-var-offside-world-cup)"
Sensor in ball will send out location data 500 times per second
Fifa claim average decision time will fall from 70sec to 25sec

by Paul MacInnes (https://twitter.com/paulmac)
July 1, 2022

[Airicist2]

Article "This World Cup is wired and fueled by AI (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/21/world-cup-ai)"
At the 2022 World Cup, everything from stadium temperatures to the soccer balls are run on sensors and algorithms.

by Pranshu Verma (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranshuverma)
November 21, 2022

[Airicist2]

https://youtu.be/bV4ek-zI3CU

A soccer-playing robot equipped for various terrains

Apr 3, 2023

"DribbleBot: Dynamic Legged Manipulation in the Wild (https://www.dropbox.com/s/ghkmz22ekbc5xwo/dribblebot_paper.pdf)"

by Yandong Ji, Gabriel B. Margolis, Pulkit Agrawal

"A four-legged robotic system for playing soccer on various terrains (https://news.mit.edu/2023/legged-robotic-system-playing-soccer-various-terrains-0403)"
“DribbleBot” can maneuver a soccer ball on landscapes such as sand, gravel, mud, and snow, using reinforcement learning to adapt to varying ball dynamics.

by Rachel Gordon (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-gordon-15157855)
April 3, 2023

Unitree Robotics (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=17576)

[Airicist2]

https://youtu.be/mc2EAp0yv0M

Training ARTEMIS (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?t=24152): autonomous soccer playing humanoid robot

Jun 24, 2023


Humanoid robot ARTEMIS training for RoboCup. Fully autonomous soccer playing outdoors.

Testing outdoors is always a challenge because;
- Strong sun rays, glare and shadows make it difficult for the vision system.
- Uneven ground and deep pile of artificial grass make locomotion challenging.
- Robot overheating from direct sunlight.
- Environmental noise affects the perception.
- Instabilities caused by strong wind gusts.
- Operational challenges such as limited access to equipment and tools for quick calibration and repairs, and limited access to power.

Still a long way to go to play against humans, but it’s always fascinating to watch it practice on the field.

See you at RoboCup 2023 in Bordeaux, France!