Football is achieving a high -tech upgrade in Beijing this weekend and players are not so fast, they are totally robotic.
The Roboleague World Robot League will host her final game in the city’s Yizhuang Development Area on Saturday, where humanoid robot teams will go head in a football game 3 to 3 in which players are completely controlled by artificial intelligence.
This competition, which is believed to be the first 3-on-3 game between robots, is a preview of next year’s world-wide humanoid robot games, and four Chinese teams formed by robot players have won their places in the finals after a series of classifications.
The robots, who will not have human assistance, will play two halves of ten minutes, with a pause of 5 minutes.
During a training session on Thursday, teams from Tsinghua University and Beijing Information and Technology Sciences University showed their robot players. Machines can walk a bit bad, but they can run, shoot and chase the ball, alone.
“The World Robot Football League will be the first testing competition for the World Humanoid Robot Robot Games and the first China Humanoid Robot Football game in 2025, which will put the resistance and agility of participating robots in the test,” he told one of the event organizers, he told China (CCTV) on central television (CCTV).
How do robots know where to go? Each one is equipped with cameras and sensors that allow him to “see” the field and find out where the ball is.
“Currently, all the visual recognition and positioning skills of the robot are made through optical cameras,” said Wang Yonghao, who is in charge of the competition operations.
“For example, during the football game, he must first identify a white, round ball or a similar object.
Robots have been formed with deep reinforcement learning: a type of artificial intelligence that helps them learn through tests and errors.
“The robot should be able to see football almost 20 meters away at a rate of precision greater than 90 percent,” said Cheng Hao, founder and CEO of Booster Robotics.
“First, you should be able to know what or where the ball, the goal or the pitch is, and then it must make decisions on the role it will play based on all these contributions.”
The machine should advance the ball to a teammate or kick -towards the net to score a goal.
“All of these are the technological challenges we want to address today. Of course, as technology evolves, all these capabilities can be achieved for the robot now,” said Cheng.
Saturday’s game is just the beginning. Beijing will host the World Humanoid Robot Games from August 15 to 17 as part of the World Robot Conference: the first world sporting event where all competitors are built.
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