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Pool play:
NBites vs. Metrobots (9 - 0)
NBites vs. UT Austin (3 - 2)
NBites vs. CMU (5 -2)
Final:
NBites vs. UT Austin (2 - 1)
Thanks to Nick for putting these together. We also have another video UT Austin vs. CMU waiting to upload once we clear off some hard drive space. All these videos will also soon be hosted on our media page.
Northern Bites 2 - Austin Villa 1. Although neither side appeared to have its best stuff, the Northern Bites victory demonstrated the continuing success of its team effort. This marks the Northern Bites third US Open (this event didn’t occur last year), and their first win. Hopefully video and pictures to follow.
Sorry for a lack of updates yesterday.
Due to a problem in their code, Brown did not have a team ready to play a normal match. We instead played against their Wii remote controlled dogs for fun and to entertain the crowd.
We then played against CMU and eventually won 5-2. It was very nail-biting as we had a couple very near goals on our goalie (You’ll see what I mean once the video is uploaded).
As I write this CMU is playing Brooklyn College to decide 3rd and 4th place. CMU is currently ahead 3-0 at the half. We are scheduled to play against AustinVilla at 12 noon to decide first and second place.
We want to express our gratitude to CMU for the excellent accommodations here at the venue; the science center is great fun to explore during down time and we have been treated to many fine meals while here.
You cannot tell from the picture but the Nao the man is holding had just fallen over and his head literally popped off the body. This occurred during a demonstration of the Nao’s walking capabilities; it is going to be a hard long road of development to get the Naos to perform as well as the Aibos do now, but we’re looking forward to the challenge
This Aibo partied a bit too hard after the match vs. CMU.
Second game of the Round Robin, US Open 2008. Final score: Northern Bites 3 - NUbots (or UT) 2.
Stuck on the west coast while the nBiters are trying to win our first ever US Open championship, I’m looking around for scores and can’t find any. So I called the team up and put them up the hard way. Here are the scores from Sunday, May 25 2008:
10:30 am CMDash’08 (Carnegie Mellon University) vs Metrobots (Brooklyn College): 8-0.
11:30 am Austin Villa (University of Texas at Austin) vs Brown # (Brown University): Forfeit by Brown, apparently their trunk is messed up currently.
12:30 pm Northern Bites (Bowdoin College) vs Metrobots (Brooklyn College): 9-0, see this post for more.
2:30 pm Brown # (Brown University) vs CMDash’08 (Carnegie Mellon University): Forfeit again by the Brown #.
4:30 pm Northern Bites (Bowdoin College) vs Austin Villa (University of Texas at Austin): UPDATE:: 2-1 at halftime. We’re apparently having issues seeing the beacons. The NUbots scored first (we’re calling them the NUbots from now on). UPDATE x2:: 3-1 after a lighting situation forced the half to restart a few minutes in. Our goalie having some issues, but the positioning looked good. UPDATE x3:: 3-2 Final Score after a series of crappy plays by us. Still a win, and not one that will make our team rest on its laurels.
In lieu of the 2:30pm game, there was a test match put on by CMU and UT. Apparently a fairly close game, UT won by four or so points (no official score was taken).
The nBiters say that they’ll have video of the 12:30pm and 4:30pm game up when they retreat to the hotel tonight. Apparently the internet at the hotel is better than the internet at CMU. Go figure.
Also to note that at 1:30pm and 3:30pm the various Nao teams (us, CMU/GT, Austin Villa), are giving Nao demonstrations to the adoring public. The nBites crew had a cool demo prepared with the two robots, one which made a movement while the other mimic’d that movement (through wireless communication, not vision if I understand correctly). However, as I’ve heard happens when you breathe upon them with a foul temperament, the Naos broke right before the demo. Hopefully having Aldebaran Robotics representatives from France will get things moving in the right direction as RoboCup hits peak season pre-China.
UPDATE:: I just had to this great idea that they should stream the video over the internet, using their MacBooks and ustream so that Tucker, my mom, and I (the Northern Bites fan club) could watch the game without delay. However, CMU is making them walk like a 1/2 mile to get on the internet. What crap!
After an ugly test game last night against UT Austin (formerly the NUbots), we played a really good, clean game against the Metrobots from Brooklyn College this morning. We had a good turnout of visitors watching our match and the adjacent small scale robots.
Footage of the match as well as pictures to come. You can watch last year’s final game of the World Championships against the NUbots here.
We have a match today at 4:30 against University of Texas at Austin. It should be a close one.
After a 15 hour trip yesterday, we arrived to our hotel in Pittsburgh, PA at around 8:30 PM.
We got to the venue this morning, the Carnegie Melon Science Center and have been setting up since then. Assuming I can find a USB cable for the digital camera, pictures to come.
View the video here
Just a heads up that if you’re in the area, and you’d like to watch our team scrimmage, we are holding a public scrimmage this Sunday in Maine Lounge in Moulton Union. We will be playing the Aibos on the larger field, 5 on 5, and also have a small demonstration of our new Humanoid robots.
Public scrimmages are a great way for us to get off of our scaled down field in the lab, and onto the regulation sized pitch. Also it will allow us to setup our Nao field for the first time.
Directions here:
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