Nerds FC is an Australian Reality TV Show that’s about to air its second season. Amazingly, the concept is to make lowly, uncoordinated nerds (something the nBites is entirely unfamiliar with) and teach them how to be soccer superstars. EVEN MORE AMAZINGLY, members of the rUNSWift Four-Legged RoboCup team have appeared on the show. Second from the left, above, is Michael Lake, a fellow nerd on the rUNSWift 2006 team who I met in Bremen last year. Props for the tv appearence Mike!!
Monthly Archive for May, 2007
A bunch of people have told me that on The Daily Show last night — RoboCup was mentioned. Specifically: robot dogs playing soccer. That’s unbelieveably awesome. The guest on the show was Lee Gutkind, a CMU professor promoting his new book Almost Human: Making Robots Think. And Lee did a great job hyping up our league and robotics in general. After hearing John Stewart say the words ‘robotic dogs playing soccer’, I know we’ve won. John Stewart will be the face of the robot revolution.
Link to Interview Video
Team Osaka shows off RoboCup entrants. Pretty cool — they hold a press conference and get picked up by one of the biggest tech blogs on the net. Here’s the linked-to article (translated) that has a lot more information. Can they repeat as champs in the humanoid league?
NUbots vs. GermanTeam [154 mb] — hosted by Aibo Team Humboldt.
Again, congrats to the GermanTeam! Enjoy your supremacy now, for you are going down in Atlanta. All 140 of you.
The orient has run a new article on our ‘podium finish’ as they call it. Get it here: here.