A bumbling recreation of robotic soccer was a breakthrough for embodied AI
Humanoid robots waddled, stumbled, and occasionally face-planted their way through a 3-against-3 soccer tournament in Beijing on Saturday that looked more like the first day of little league than the rise of a robotic Lionel Messi. Pile-ups were frequent as players toppled over each other in slow-motion collisions, goals were left open, and defending appeared … Read more