By Mark Baber
August 27 = The world-renowned Federation of International Robot-Soccer Association (FIRA) Roboworld Cup kicked off on Monday in Malaysia, with a hundred teams from universities around the world competing in categories including the Micro-Robot Soccer Tournament (MiroSot), the Simulated Robot Soccer Tournament (SimuroSot) and the Humanoid Robot Soccer Tournament (HuroCup).
The first international robot soccer championship was held at KAIST, Daejeon, Korea in 1996 with the FIRA being formally founded in June 1997.
In MiroSot, participants use artificial intelligence, sharp sensing and precise real-time control for the physical robot-soccer players, enabling robot-soccer players to cooperate and coordinate autonomously.
In SimuroSot, the game is simulated on a computer between two teams with no physical robot involved.
The biggest threat to FIFPro and professional players comes from developments in HuroCup, which features humanoids. A terrifying vision of the future of football, with human players struggling to compete with their robot counterparts can be seen in this game played between highly skilled humanoids in 2012.
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