VisiON 4G

Team NimbRo of the University of Freiburg today beat last year's champions Team Osaka in the kid-size humanoid soccer competition at RoboCup 2007! NimbRo's robots Jurgen and Lothar beat Team Osaka's VisiON 4G robots 8-6. See our video page for more of the highlights. ... continued

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Here's an amazing video of Vstone's VisiON 4G robot goal keeping. VisiON 4G is one of Team Osaka's entrants into the RoboCup Soccer competition this year. Vstone's robots are characterized by an omnidirectional (360-degree) camera located in the robot's head. I believe this revolutionary vision system has been developed by the famous robotics researcher Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro. If you recall, Professor Ishiguro created a robot twin of himself recently. ... continued