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I think this is this is very robotic is happening for real it's very different from the laboratory environment or you just do point the camera and the robot and wait until it has worked and then you shorted it verte one time here it has to work on time and it has to work in a dynamic environment or other robots are bumping into you and there's all kinds of disturbances undefined light things like that the competition is make more difficult to get to see the real problems it's not so easy to know what the purpose of Robocop is there used to be this original vision of winning against the human soccer players in the year 2050 and it's also like a big we go to the moon project of artificial intelligence research the problem is that if the most competitive league is the kids size where you're always less than a meteor less than a half meter tall it's not going to go anywhere very fast right so you need to actually upgrade to some of these larger size leaks so we have the kids size which is like half a meter tall now we got the teen size league which is starting to get more competitive and that's a meter tall adult sized league which is just as tall as us and that one's still a little bit how do I walk around how do I kick the ball without falling over if you have also Gator 300 parameters of the software that is put out in a text file though you can have easy access to it plus there is a number which which I don't even know hard coded in a cold let's say there's a 500 numbers we should term in how well the robot plays and if you miss adjust one of them it doesn't work we start approximately two months before competitions and then it gets more and more time intensive the closer we get to listen to the first day here we didn't do as much of the iterative design because there's no machine shop so a lot of the work was behind the scenes you know before aerobic up then be here that's basically all we do you get up in the morning you come into the hole your work and work and work on the robots and evening you go back to bed I am dead tired of course when I get home it's just that there's so many things spinning in my head you know the whole program with robots is basically lowering my brain when I sleep and trying to still find the errors than the bugs I'm going to sleep it's pretty difficult challenge to get a robot to act like a human and how to interact with the environment of soccer ball all the lighting conditions how they vary to be competitive with humans we need a much more powerful robots and the same time much more safe robots you need to put a good deal of research in there before you can even think about doing artificial intelligence you need to have a very strong mechanical platform the general point of the at-home competition is to show that robots can do something in a home environment the board should be able to do something in an previously unknown environment they have to manipulate objects recognize objects of course and it's quite a complex problem it whines a lot of different things lot of the things we learn from the soccer robots we applied in the home robot so we started initially the circle robots and had the communication robot but then we carried over many of the insights to the at home robots it's about intelligence in machines and the challenges is about modeling the world and understanding the outcome of actions of different types of actions if you can make something that's very reliable what you're doing is making sure that it doesn't trip over small disturbances when it touches a robot it doesn't fall down when it's walking in an environment it won't run into things right so you don't want a robot that's in at home or an office or a workspace there's constantly running into a refrigerator or a desk or something like that you don't want something that is tripping while it's going up the stairs because there's you know a few papers lying around something like that and robocup there are so many of these problems that we actually are addressing and putting into larger scale humanoids it's all about reliability it's all about stability it's all about increasing the size and power of your robots people ask me about 2050 of you that's ridiculous you see like they have these tiny robots they can now walk pretty well but they're really not very smart and they have trouble seeing the ball you'll never be able to do it I just tell them well that's probably what people were said in 1903 when they saw the Wright brothers fly 300 meters in a kite basically 50 years later and Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in a jet plane so that was an enormous improvement over 50 years and now we still have 38 years left in the speed of change is is much faster than it was about a hundred years ago in robotics it's always about the robots and what they can do but I think it's also important to look at the people who are doing the research behind it what their goals are what they want to get out of their robots for a lot of people it's just getting robots to work but for us it's also learning about the human for example our bio by pet approach taking a deep look into human locomotion and how human muscle activation works and all these things because i think the evolution has shown us that the system humans are using is quite useful and working quite well so it's very part to me everybody here feels like they're making a contribution towards this kind of robot goal it is driven by the into the Asimov its participants and if you go through the different halls and the different leagues and to watch the different people the different teams they are very dedicated their enthusiastic I think this is one of the most important issues that it is really driven by thousands of enthusiasts all over the world I mean I think the biggest thing is that you don't want to forget the human power involved in this a lot of times everybody's looking at the robots in that robot this this there's a whole consortium of teams and people that go into making these robots robocop is basically a reality check or you could say a site where you can test these skills that we developed and lab you know in a more dynamic and unstructured environment ultimately they have to work here on the soccer field that's what it's about