Re: Robocup 2000

From: Emlyn O'Regan (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 08:21:31 MDT


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From: "Eugene Leitl" <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 6:05 PM
Subject: Robocup 2000

Emlyn O'Regan writes:

> Their programming seemed relatively brittle; they couldn't cope with much
> surprise in their environment (like a person standing in front of them).
> They tended to need to be hand placed on different parts of the field.
They
> looked, as I said, like little garbage bins.

No wonder the robots look similiar, they use a standard robot chassis.

I'm told the Freiburg thingies are now using cooperation for the first
time. This is clearly a highly interesting area of evolvable emergent
behaviour of robot teams. A position soon to be filled: a robot trainer ;)



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