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The other Olympics in China

Posted July 23, 2008 11:38 AM by mavella

Sure, the big show starts in a couple of weeks, but there's another important world sports event that just took place in China - the RoboCup 2008. The goal of the RoboCup competition is developing a team of autonomous humanoid robot soccer players by 2050 that will be able to defeat the World Cup champions.

And our friends from Virginia Tech were there with DARwIn III in the kid-size humanoid soccer division, powered by a PC/104 platform.

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