Friday, March 5, 2010

Robots VS Humans in soccer. Possible?

This post will be about the question in the previous post. Is it possible for a team of autonomous(programmed)robots to beat a world class soccer team? Here's my view.

I personally think it is possible. By then, technology will be very developed and may allow humans to construct a robotics soccer player. There will be high class motors that produce high strength. This will allow the humanoids to kick the ball with enormous strength. There will be high class sensors which enables the robots to sense another robot and pass to it. There will also be stronger materials that can withstand kicks from the human players.

But there are lots of factors to be considered. Firstly, the ball. The ball needs to emit infra-red rays and must be able to be kicked and headed by human players. Secondly, the spectators. In RoboSoccer, there cannot be yellow and blue colours in the robots as these two colours will affect the infra-red ball. It may also affect the humanoids in the match. Next, materials of the robots. The robots cannot be metallic as it will hurt if two players from each team collide. Furthermore, this will prevent everyone from slide-tackling. If the humanoids slide tackle the humans, the human player will definitely be injured. Therefore, the material of the humanoids cannot be any kind of metal.

If this match really carried out in 2050, it will surely be very exciting and attract millions and billions of people to watch this match. If the world class team turns out to be the team I support, I will still support the team of humanoids as they are the special in every way.

All the way, RoboCup, develop the team of humanoids to compete with the world's best team!

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