Scoring a back-kick is worthless…

Posted on June 28, 2010 by ximilian

RoboCup 2010 - The Final (copyright by Reuters)

Long time claimed, but impossible to demonstrate. With these words could have been described the goal scored by CHITA team to CMU (Carnagie Mellon).

Long story made short. During last RoboCup, in the match won by CMU, our team scored a goal from our half-field by using back-kick. The video is unavailable, inexplicably the CMU guy claimed: “I did not record that…”.

We believed that the proof of our moment of glory was gone forever, buried just in our memory.
But we believe in Internet! And, finally we have the proof!

“I’ve never seen back-kick scoring like this in real soccer,” he said after one of his robots found the net with a spectacular back-heel against a team from Carnegie Mellon University of the United States.

Read the complete article for discover the identity of the one!

(btw the source is reliable, is nevertheless the “Reuters“)

Mediterranean Open – Official Schedule

Posted on March 18, 2010 by ximilian

Since the organization seems to be sluggish, here it is the official schedule (the complete round robin combinations are below):

Thursday 18th

9:00 – 9:30 Opening ceremony
10:00 – 11:00 Practice matches for TV
11:00 – 12:00 Practice matches for schools
15:00 – 18:00 Round robin

Friday 19th

10:00 – 11:30 Round robin
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch time
14:00 – 15:00 Round robin

Saturday 20th

to be decided: Semi-finals
to be decided: Finals
12:30 Ending ceremony

The teams were grouped in these pools:

Pool A		Pool B
A1	Nao Team Humboldt	B1	SpiTeam
A2	MetroSpelBots	B2	SPQR (Cheetah)
A3	Kouretes	B3	Les Trois Mousquetaires (L3M)
A4	Austrian-Kangaroos	B4	Los Hidalgos

Finally, here there are the round robin:

Date	Cyan	Magenta	Referees
Th. 15:00	A1	A2	B2-B3
Th. 15:30	B1	B2	A1-A2
Th. 16:00	A3	A4	B1-B2
Th. 16:30	B3	B4	A3-A4
Th. 17:00	A1	A3	B3-B4
Th. 17:30	B1	B3	A1-A3
Fr. 10:00	A2	A4	B1-B3
Fr. 10:30	B2	B4	A2-A4
Fr. 11:00	A4	A1	B2-B4
Fr. 11:30	B4	B1	B4-B1
Fr. 14:00	A2	A3	B4-B1
Fr. 14:30	B2	B3	A2-A3

I will keep you posted about the results. Hope to see there!

Let’s start playing!

Posted on March 16, 2010 by ximilian

After two years of really hard work (and I mean really hard!), we moved our first steps
Ehm, ok, our robots moved their first steps. And most important, I saw my 3-years-research run on real platform.
I can understand you are not excited as I am, so I just invite you to came next days at the 1° Mediterranean Open!!!

For facebook-addicted, we have an event too: check it out here!

Remember to bring your caps, some flags, a very big cup of pop-corn (or two, one for me ) and some friends!
I wish you enjoy the games!

Soccer Robot in the Lab

Posted on November 12, 2009 by ximilian

Robot calciatori, giocando si impara

Here we are! Our laboratory is on the net!
Brief story: read the article about RoboCup and our activities here on Repubblica.it

Long story: Few days ago we (our team) were contacted by Flaminia Festuccia, journalist for Repubblica.it. She wanted to write an article about our robots (it seems we are “well-known” about that, never imagined…).
Anyway, she came on Tuesday and now you can read the article (sorry Italian only)!
It’s complete and there is a video too!
Check it out (I apologize for the clutter in our lab, but we are working…)

Robot Calciatori on Repubblica.it

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Scoring a back-kick is worthless…

Mediterranean Open – Official Schedule

Let’s start playing!

Soccer Robot in the Lab