Haifa University
A robot that plays soccer won first place in the robotics competition held today at the University of Haifa. The robot, known as "Blip", won the school category and was programmed and built by two engineers from the Ort Hormetz school in Jerusalem - Adam Rimon and Nadav Horesh, who won a full scholarship for undergraduate studies at the University of Haifa.
The robot plays on the field as a striker and its actions are guided by several tasks - it must locate the ball, catch it and kick it to the goal, where another robot is standing. "In order for it to be able to do this, we equipped the robot with a compass, built sensitive mechanisms that calculate the distance from the ball and installed wheels located at special angles in order to help it identify the ball while traveling," said the robot's designers who noted that they are addicted to robotics and worked on the creation of "Blip" for Many days and nights.
The hard work paid off, as in addition to winning the robotics competition at the University of Haifa, they represented Israel in a global robot soccer competition that will take place next month in Germany. "The World Artificial Intelligence Organization has set a goal for itself for the year 2050 - that a robot soccer team will succeed in beating a human soccer team," said Dr. Reuven Granot from the University of Haifa, who is organizing the competition for the third year. And this did happen," he said and expressed hope that the robotic soccer team would have robots from Israel represented. According to him, every year The robots that are presented in the competition at the University of Haifa are walking and becoming more sophisticated with a higher level of programming.
Second place in the schools category was won by "Beast", a robot that detects a fire and extinguishes it. The third place was won by a robot dancing to the tune of the song "Your'e Beautiful". "We decided to create a robot that would have human qualities and know how to respond to music," said Yoav Godin, one of the robot's creators. "We hope to improve his performance so that he can also dance to the sounds of more rhythmic songs and in the future we will program a robot that will serve as his dance partner" he said and said that he treats the robot, which took about six months to build, as his child.
Among the other robots presented in the competition, in which college and university students also participate in the various categories: a robot that recognizes objects and helps tidy up the room, a robot that bypasses obstacles and a robot that photographs objects.
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