Harbin, China, home to the Institute of Technology's robot football research group, will host a robot olympics in 2010. According to the BBC News, "Entry to the competition will be restricted to robots resembling humans. They must possess two arms and legs. Wheels are banned."
Robot olympics coming to China
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So, *Android* Olympics, then.
I suspect the wheeled robots and their supporters will protest outside the venues for the competitions.
Great, now you've got me trying to think of a way to make a "Special Olympics" analogy that doesn't make me sound like an insensitive prick.
>Great, now you've got me trying to think of a way to make a "Special Olympics" analogy...
I'll admit that considered doing the same, but used restraint.:-)
Hmmm, if the goal (pun intended) of that event is to build a football player that moves exactly like a human then it's certainly ok to ban wheeled robots, but if someone wants to convince us that a legged robot is better than a wheeled one good luck then.
Animals have legs instead of wheels not because legs are better but because nature didn't find a way to make continuously rotating organs. The closest approximation is the way some worms and snakes move, something very close to an endless screw, which is what you do when you need a wheel but cannot have one.
The day nature will invent organic ball bearings is the day most land animals human will start evolving into wheeled critters, humans includes.
Dear All,
Want to know the technical specification requirements for the participation in china Olympics... Kindly some one help for the same.
Thanks
Vishnu Pryal