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University of Pennsylvania
Legged RoboCup Soccer Team

This page contains information on the University of Pennsylvania effort to develop competitive entries in the RoboCup legged robotic soccer challenge. Our team, the UPennalizers, competed in RoboCup '99, held in Stockholm, Sweden, and RoboCup '00 held in Melbourne Australia, using Sony's AIBO legged robot.

This is an outdated link-- please go here for the new link to the Penn legged robocup team's web page...

This year's competition will be in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Some useful links related to this project:

• The RoboCup homepage
• More detailed info on RoboCup 99
• Extended coverage of the RoboCup 99 legged competition courtesy of Sony
• Information on Sony's AIBO legged robot

Here are also some movies of the dogs in action (they don't seem to play on UNIX based mpeg players, so good luck...).

[movie1], [movie2], [movie3],

And here are a few more photos (courtesy of Kentaro Fukada and Sony):