human-free kick
Human-Free Kick
The crowd went wild, almost as if it were a World Cup match. Actually, it was RoboCup 2002. The annual robotic soccer tournament was held in Fukuoka, Japan, this past June as the World Cup was getting under way. The timing was no coincidence. The notion of robots taking on Brazil would be laughable if roboticists around the world were not so enthusiastically answering the call.