Will you play this weekend against ‘FC Dribblebot’?
DribbleBot (Dexterous Ball Manipulation with aLegged Robot) is a legged robotic system that can dribble a soccer ball under the same real-world conditions as humans
If you’ve ever played soccer with a robot, it’s a familiar feeling. Sun glistens down on your face as the smell of grass permeates the air. You look around. A four-legged robot is hustling toward you, dribbling with determination … researchers from MIT’s Improbable Artificial Intelligence Lab have developed a legged robotic system that can dribble a soccer ball under the same conditions as humans. The bot used a mixture of onboard sensing and computing to traverse different natural terrains such as sand, gravel, mud, and snow, and adapt to their varied impact on the ball’s motion. Like every committed athlete, “DribbleBot” could get up and recover the ball after falling.
Watch the video and see if you can pass the ball!
The full paper on the development and coding of this dribblebot can be found here https://www.dropbox.com/s/ghkmz22ekbc5xwo/dribblebot_paper.pdf?dl=0
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