In 1996, IBM computer scientists developed a chess-playing computer named Deep Blue. Not only did people doubt that it would have the ability to beat a world champion, they found it to be ludicrous that it would be able to beat any average joe. The media was in for a shock when on May 11th, 1997 under regular timed situations, Deep Blue beat the world champion at the time, Garry Kasparov at a game of chess.
IBM’s Deep Blue innovation has acted as the springboard for the basis of Robocup, and the notion of soccer-playing robots. Robocup’s ultimate goal however is by the year 2050, to develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team. RoboCup is an international research and education initiative. It is an attempt to foster artificial intelligence and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem which can allow for the integration and analysis of a broad spectrum of technology. In order to satisfy this......
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