AI-Powered Football Robot Stuns Crowds with Childlike Skills
Watch out, Cristiano Ronaldo—this is football played with robotics and artificial intelligence. The model is Chinese, stands about a meter tall, and can play in multiple positions.
The University of Minho has already mastered the tactics—or rather, the software. In this championship, human hands stay off the pitch.
For now, these robots have the skills of a three- or four-year-old child, but they're already capable of setting the stands on fire.
To make robotics more appealing, there's nothing like getting hands-on with an electronic circuit board.
Over three days, with learning as the central theme, every participant receives a kit and an instruction manual.
More than 400 children and young people took part in this year's RoboParty in Guimarães. Through trial and error, they must build a robot and put it to the test.
As for football, the showdown between robots and humans already has a date.
The scientific community believes that by 2050, humanoid robots will be able to defeat the world champion men's team.
