Man is creating a kind of competition on behalf or machines that seems good for nothing, but muscles substitute for him. Humanoid robots are very much trying to tease us in whatever a human can perform physically. Fujitsu Automation’s entry into the 2007 Robot Awards this time includes HOAP-3 — a soccer robot.
That’s the height of sluggishness for humans. We play for ourselves, but in the future, robots will play for us. What’s the logic? In order to have proper game, we have to make them shouting, jealous, quarreling, and hugging each other.
Anyway, HOAP-3 can keep track of its soccer ball, kick it and grab it, all while being controlled by a wireless network. That’s possible with image recognition function of internal camera and controllable through a wired or wireless LAN. It was going through a work on it for a past few years and now, it’s ready for some kicking work. I doubt, one day robots will start kicking us out of this planet.
Via: Dvice
