Here’s a fun challenge: teaching a quadrupedal robot to successfully dribble a soccer ball. It is, in essence, a core component of RoboCup, the big international competition founded all the way back ...

Manuela Veloso is increasing the learning abilities of her robots through robot soccer. Manuela Veloso is an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher from Carnegie Mellon University who programs small ...

Innovation First has just showcased its latest robotic creations, the HexBug, at New York City’s toy fair. The new HexBug Ant Micro and HexBug Nano Newton have transparent exoskeletons and are powered ...

Soccer is getting a high-tech upgrade in Beijing this weekend, and the players aren’t just fast — they’re fully robotic. The RoBoLeague World Robot Soccer League will host its final match in the ...

Robot dog soccer was the most popular sport at this year's 2005 RoboCup U.S. Open. One of the goals at the three-day competition at the Georgia Institute of technology is to develop software for ...

Robots can do many things. They can vacuum our homes. They can assemble our automobiles in huge factories. And, of course, they can play soccer. Over the last week, teams from all over the world have ...

We’re pretty sure that this wouldn’t qualify for the upcoming Robocup, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have been keeping themselves busy lately by playing soccer with robots. But they ...

(Reuters) - Watch out, Lionel Messi. ARTEMIS is here. Standing at 4 feet, 8 inches tall (142 centimeters) and weighing 85 pounds (38 kg), ARTEMIS is a first-of-its-kind robot that University of ...

In a futuristic showdown that captured global attention, four teams of autonomous humanoid robots competed in China's first AI-powered soccer tournament. The event took place in Beijing's Yizhuang ...

In the absense of local human talent, Chinese soccer fans have taken to watching robots instead. Four teams of fully-autonomous humanoid machines competed in 3-on-3 matches Saturday night in a preview ...