The event occupies halls 3 through 5 at Intex Osaka.

TECHNO

Open wide for some SOCCER!

Soccer action in the humanoid division.

video: Humanoid robot saunters around the field, blissfully unaware of the ball.

 

 

Fierce-looking goalkeeper.

 

Some robots from Team Osaka.

The robots of "RoboPro Garage," whatever that may be.

Talking toy robots.

 

Iron man #28.

I'm not really sure what these are.

Lineup of toy robots.

The Wabots do their traditional Japanese dance.

video: Wabots in motion.

Let's dance with a Robot!!

SECOM security bot.

LED vendor.

Dis?

 

The robot rescue simulator competition - only AI, no physical robots.

 

Back to the field for more humanoid soccer.

 

This robot is trying unsuccessfully to take a penalty kick.

 

 

The robot rescue competition.

 

The mannequin parts are attached to motors to simulate people signaling for help; the robots have to locate them.

 

 

Water speaker.

Limbs.

Rescue bot maintenance.

Fujitsu humanoid robots.

 

Sony Aibos face off in the four-legged soccer division.

 

 

video: Blue takes a shot.

 

Scrambling for a loose ball.

video: Look at them go.

Prototype Aibos.

The Aibo booth.

The Sony guy is eyeing me warily.

 

This robot is operating a backhoe.

 

Countdown until the day when the robots will play a human soccer team.

RoboCup timeline.

The optical tongue robot identifies some ham.

The creepy android woman, Repliee Q1.

 

Citizen watch assembly line.

This is obviously a man-machine synergy effector. Couldn't you tell?

The highest level of robot soccer seems to be this, the midsize division.

Citizen robot lathe.

These are two of the top-ranked teams.

video: This is unfortunately the only video of the midsize division I was able to take before my battery died. However, I find it pretty hilarious.