Aibos Playing Soccer
Published on June 8, 2003
Knowing Carnegie-Mellon’s students, they are always tinkering with stuff: In this case, programming commercially available SONY Aibo robots to play soccer. In past month’s RoboCup American Open, CMU’s team beat the runner up 9-0.
But this is artificial life on the frontier, and “people just don’t really appreciate how hard this is,” says Jim Bruce, a third-year graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University here and a four-year RoboCup veteran with world titles in his trophy case. “People always ask why the dogs are so slow, but it took years to get them to walk as fast as they do.” Read more…