Meet Android FC – a three-player squad created by academics at the University of Edinburgh.
The two-foot high striker, defender and goalkeeper are fully autonomous. They play the beautiful game using artificial intelligence and have sensors that detect other players and the ball.
The only human allowed on the pitch after the coin toss is the referee.
Hit the jump for video of the 2009 RoboCup competition in Germany…
Edinburgh university’s School of Infomatics hope their squad will eventually reach the humanoid finals in Turkey in 2011.
The international competition was founded in 1997. Last year it attracted 407 teams from 43 different countries. The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is to develop a team of humanoid robots by 2050 that can play and win against the human world champion football team.
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