„The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is By 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer.“ (www.robocup.org)

It sounds like the end of the soccer world as we know it. Like one of the first scenes of „Battlestar Gallactica“ in a soccer galaxy. I am usually not thinking that much about soccer, but when you live in Vienna, which is the host city of the EM finale on Sunday, you are automatically hypnotised by the euphoria of the masses on the streets. It feels like a constant Fata Morgana or a drug side effect. You see toreros driving bicycle in front of your door and you get hugged by strangers in the underground just because your shoes have the same colour as the winning team jersey.

Anyway the „RoboCup“ Project is a very interesting project in robotics, which combines science and fun for the audience, which is something very unusual I would say. The teams who are taking part on the present „RoboCup‘s“ consist out of robots and their programmers in different categories. Until now the robots are playing against other robots, but who knows…..The amazing robots in the „Humanoid“ category look already like the first cylon models I would say. But of course like a kind of the nice cylons. Still there is a way to go to get these guys to look like a sexy David Villa I guess.

RoboCup rockz!

The „RoboCup 2009“ is going to take place in Graz in Austria.