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A soccer robot is a specialized
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A soccer robot is a specialized autonomous robot
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and mobile robot
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that is used to play variants of soccer.
The main organised competitions are RoboCup
RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition founded in 1996 by a group of university professors (including Hiroaki Kitano, Manuela M. Veloso, and Minoru Asada). The aim of the competition is to promote robotics and AI research by of ...
or FIRA
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tournaments played each year.
The RoboCup contest currently has a number of soccer leagues:
** Standard Platform League (formerly Four Legged League)
** Small Size League
** Middle Size League
** Simulation League
*** 2D Soccer Simulation
*** 3D Soccer Simulation
* Humanoid League
Additionally, there is a RoboCupJunior league for younger students.
qfix Soccer robot
The qfix soccer robot "Terminator" is an omnidrive robot that can be used forRoboCup Junior RoboCup Junior (RCJ), sometimes stylised RobocupJunior, is a division of RoboCup, a not-for-profit robotics organisation. It focuses on education and aims to introduce the larger goals of the RoboCup project (creating robots) to primary and second ...
. It includes a kicker and a dribbler as well as a controller board with Atmel controller.
The robot can be programmed using the GNU GCC compiler.
Graupner RC-SOCCERBOT
The Graupner "RC-SOCCERBOT" is a mobile robot platform developed by qfix which can be used as a radio-controller toy playing soccer with ping-pong balls. Gaining more experience in robotics the user can also implement C++ programs on the robot.References
External links
Official Website For RoboCup Junior
qFix
Graupner Robotics
Educational toys * {{Toy-stub