Go, Berlin, go! Go, China, go!

In an earlier post I wrote that China's National Football League teams are notorious for being not extremely successful (among many other things). This also holds true, unfortunately, for the National Team of the PR China. But this rather damning verdict regarding Chinese football in general does certainly not include a very nice, amazing and sophisticated species of football teams: the Humanoids.

At the current World RoboCup in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, there are so so many models you just have to adore. As my alma mater (Freie Universität Berlin, that is) also has five cute and successful models in the game, I am still undecided which team I should go for.

Berlin United - FUmanoids? The team at Zhejiang University with its special breed of football humanoids? The team at Beijing Information Science and Technology University? The team at prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing? Or the nice group at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology?

What a hard decision to make - but see for yourself.


Robot 'Ada' of the FUmanoids



All 5 of the FUmanoids



One of the ZJUDancers (Zhejiang University)



The Team at Beijing Information Science and Technology University



Last but not least: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
(HiroEvolution at RoboCup 2012)