Originally published at: Watch robots play football | Boing Boing
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Very cool, but… I am very disappointed that they didn’t program a celebration dance after a goal; not even an arms-up gesture.
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I’m more disappointed in the lack of faking serious injury when falling down.
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I’m sure they will get to that level soon enough. Can’t wait for real teams with , like, little robot refs.
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How much did those robots have to drink?
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They should vet the training data better.
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Can they fake an injury? It’s a pretty low bar.
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I know it is a very impress demonstration of robot development; but, man, is it giggleworthy, too! 
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Lee Tomlin’s Fallon d’Floor nomination from the start of this season should be used in the training data.
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That’s not football, that’s soccer. 
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But when will we be able to see androids fighting?
The switch red card is so funny
When they wake up. They are currently dreaming.
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No, it’s football, and American football is hand egg…
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of electric sheep
Actually… nah just kidding. i know better.
Latest pitch for AI: DeepMind-trained soccer robots
Eggheads at Google’s DeepMind have developed a deep learning curriculum that can teach robots how to play soccer badly – and it’s wonderful to behold.
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The 28 researchers involved in this project describe their work in a paper [PDF] titled, “Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning.”
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I’m sure the engineers are like, “Yeah but look how good they are at getting up when they fall down” 
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They are very cute
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