{"51200":{"#nid":"51200","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech\/Carnegie Mellon Team Takes 2nd Place at RoboCup 2008","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGT\/CMUnited\u201908, a team made up of members from Georgia Tech Computing and Carnegie Mellon University, placed second in their league at Robocup 2008, an international robotic soccer competition held July 14-20 in Suzhou, China.\u003Cbr \/\u003ETeams from 14 universities around the world competed in the standard-platform Nao sub-league, where two-legged humanoid robots play soccer on a 5-by-7-meter field. The Nao, a 22-inch-tall humanoid robot made by Aldebaran Robotics of France, was used for the first time this year by all 16 teams.\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce programmed, the Nao robots operate fully autonomously without external control by humans or computers. That way the teams can concentrate on software development while still using state-of-the-art robots.\u003Cbr \/\u003EScores of other teams competed in other Robocup leagues using small, mid-sized and four-legged robots such as the Sony-made Aibo, a robotic dog.\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the final game, GT\/CMUnited\u201908 played against the NUManoids, a joint team from the University of Newcastle in Australia and the National University of Ireland that took first place in the Aibo league at last year\u2019s Robocup. Neither team scored a goal during the game, but the NUManoids scored more penalty kicks during the tie-breaker to win the game.\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe goal of the international RoboCup soccer initiative is to develop a team of humanoid robots that is able to win against the human world soccer championship team by 2050. In some ways the RoboCup challenge is the successor of the chess challenge that was resolved in 1997 when the computer Deep Blue beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGT\/CMUnited\u201908, a team made up of members from Georgia Tech Computing\nand Carnegie Mellon University, placed second in their league at\nRobocup 2008, an international robotic soccer competition held July\n14-20 in Suzhou, China.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:40:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:36","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}