Texas robot team defeats Australian counterparts in China showdown

An American team of robots defeated an Australian rival in soccer on Monday to win the RoboCup Challenge as technical problems plagued the Australian side. The University of Texas at Austin's Austin Villa beat the University of New South Wales' Runswift 7-3 during China's 2016 World Robot Conference The University of Texas at Austin's Austin Villa beat the University of New South Wales' Runswift 7-3 during China's 2016 World Robot Conference RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition founded in 1997. It aims to promote robotics and artificial intelligence research. The official goal of the project is that by 2050 a team of fully autonomous humanoid football players will be able to compete against the most recent winning team of the real Wolrd Cup - and comply to all of Fifa's rules. 'We've been using that robot for three or four days straight, and just before the finals, it stops,' said Collette.