This is a holding page for the discussion of robots, specifically autonomous biped robots which interest me.

A good place to start is with Dr Cetin Mericli who is a post-doctoral fellow at the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University as well as the man behind RoboCup 2011.

Take a soccer game that requires lots of speed, dexterity and skill, then get robots to play it:

1. Radio controlled by humans it is fast and aggressive: VIDEO LINK

2. Autonomous (pre-programmed) robots are slower, less aggressive, fall over a lot and are quite funny: