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UK robot football championships 2007

While the England football team may be struggling their robot football counterparts go from strength to strength. This weekend (31 March & 1 April 2007) sees the annual UK Robot Championship at the University of Warwick and this year the University of Warwick WMG team will be unveiling their first bipedal robot football squad.

In the normal UK robot football championships, two teams of small cubic robots play with an orange coloured ball on an internationally specified pitch, and try to score as many goals as possible. Pitch marks and ruling correspond more or less to those of conventional soccer. A referee watches over both of the five minute halves of the game. Teams from The University of Warwick. Plymouth and Nottingham will compete for robot football cup this year.

However the Warwick team will use the event to show off their new squad of five bipedal robot footballers who can not only kick a ball but can also cartwheel down the pitch in pursuit of balls and other players. They have no other UK opponents yet sufficiently advanced to take on their bipedal team but at the rate robot footballers are developing maybe Steve McClaren might soon consider using robots to freshen up his squad.

The event will take place in the WMG IMC building on the University of Warwick campus starting at 11am on Saturday 31 March.

For further information please contact:

Peter Dunn, Press and Media Relations Manager
University of Warwick 07767 655860
02476 523708 p.j.dunn@warwick.ac.uk

Zoë Howard WMG
on 02476 524721 or 07824 540845
Zoe.Howard@warwick.ac.uk