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Video Friday: Humanoid Soccer

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The robots of Team NimbRo of University of Bonn, Germany, won the main soccer tournament, the Drop-in tournament, and the Technical Challenges. CoRL 2022 : 14–18 December 2022, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND ICRA 2023 : 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON Enjoy today’s videos! Consequently, NimbRo came in first in the overall Best-Humanoid ranking.

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Video Friday: Robot Soccer Finals

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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

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Euro 2024 E-Mobility Partner Is … BYD!

CleanTechnica EVs

Football (soccer). Well, this is an interesting turn of events. The Euros is one of the biggest things in Europe. continued] The post Euro 2024 E-Mobility Partner Is … BYD! appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Will Robots Triumph over World Cup Winners by 2050?

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Participants spend months solving diverse technical problems to enable their robots to autonomously play soccer, do household chores, or search for disaster victims. Rugged and capable, Nao is able to fall over and quickly get up again, a critical skill for soccer-playing humans and robots alike.

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Goalkeeping Robot Dog Tends Its Net Like a Pro

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The best professional football goalkeepers in the English Premiere League (we’re talking about the sport called soccer in North America) are able to save almost, but not quite, 80 percent of shots taken on goal. We note that human soccer goalkeepers average around a 69 [percent] save rate. This is very good.

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Lunaz upcycled electric garbage trucks are a model for reuse, carbon reduction vs. new

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Lunaz, whose investors include soccer legend David Beckham, says that the result—starting with end-of-life Mercedes-Benz Econic garbage. The UK firm Lunaz claims to have revealed what it calls the world’s most advanced upcycled electric vehicle—a recycled vehicle that does the recycling with a much lighter carbon footprint.

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Cruise Robotaxis Enter Miami (Just As Messi Does)

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Just as magical Lionel Messi started his new era of soccer in The Magic City, magical Cruise robotaxis started testing on its roads. GM’s robotaxi firm Cruise is slowly expanding, and its next market appears to be Miami.

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