Future robots play games

Hide Caption. RoboCup's Small Size league features teams of six robots that must fit within a mm diameter circle and must be no higher than 15 cm.

The ultimate aim of the tournament is to advance the development of intelligent robots. The robots fight in an octagonal ring and must knock down their opponent three times to win. As well as providing spectator thrills, the competition aims to improve robotic technology and promote intelligent robots to the public.

Segway polo is like regular polo, but instead of horses, players ride two-wheeled electric Segways. Coming soon, perhaps, to an off-road racecourse near you, is the Furrion Prosthesis exo-bionic racing mech robot.

This giant robotic exoskeleton was created by engineer Jonathan Tippet. His vision is to use it for mech racing -- a sport where people will pilot huge mechanical suits through complex obstacle courses. Aiming to promote the use of sustainable micromobility transportation in urban areas, the eSkootr Championship will launch in Spring Riders will race through inner-city circuits on high-tech S1-X electric scooters, which can reach speeds of over kilometers 62 miles per hour.

In drone soccer, teams of between three and five pilots score points by flying their "striker" drone through their opponent's goal, while the opposition tries to block them. It's intended to help its human opponent train by matching the difficulty of its play to their abilities, using cameras that detect their movement, facial expression and heart rate.

Speedgate is a game created by artificial intelligence, and combines aspects of croquet, rugby and soccer. A neural network was trained using rules from around sports, according to AKQA, the design agency behind Speedgate.

Camel racing is a traditional sport in the Middle East. But while child jockeys were once commonplace, in countries such as the United Arab Emirates they have been replaced by lightweight robot jockeys. The robot jockeys consist of a metal frame with remote-controlled features. As well as a standard whip, trainers can add extra features to their robot jockeys, such as a GPS to pinpoint the camel's location, a walkie talkie to allow the trainer to speak to the camel, and a heart rate monitor.

In first-person view drone racing, pilots guide drones through complex racecourses while wearing goggles that stream live video from the drones' cameras. Since then we have seen an explosive growth in computer technology and also in the algorithms and languages used to program computers.

My own area of research is closely related to this. This growth continues at an exponential rate, with Moore's law predicting that computer power doubles every two years.

Until fairly recently the programs used to control a computer were typically written by a human computer programmer.

They are usually written in a high level language such as C or Python or similar, and are then converted compiled or interpreted into the machine code instructions used by the computer architecture. Such coding is prone to errors computer bugs and the code often has to be extensively tested to ensure that it does not contain bugs on its release. As most of us will be only too aware, this testing is not always perfect.

More recently, there has been an important advance in the creation of provable codes and automated reasoning. In these codes an operation is specified by the programmer, but code is written by a machine in such a way that it can be proven no to contain errors.

Provable codes have very important uses in the design of software in safety critical systems, such as the control for the jet engine in an airliner, medical devices and cyber security systems. The most recent development in computer programming, however, has been the development of machine learning. We will have a look at this revolutionary technique in the next article. This article is based on a talk in Budd's ongoing Gresham College lecture series see video above.

You can see other articles based on the talk here. He is particularly interested in applying mathematics to the real world and promoting the public understanding of mathematics.

He has co-written the popular mathematics book Mathematics Galore! Sangwin, and features in the book 50 Visions of Mathematics ed. Sam Parc. Skip to main content. Chris Budd. Alan Turing. Follow us. Register Log in. My Profile points. Log out. New Games Most Popular Games. Robots Games Play robot games at Y8. Robots were a dream of previous generations in the history of humanity ever since the dawn of the industrial evolution.

Now robots are becoming a reality. It could be a toy robot or a floor vacuuming robot. This collection of games feature beloved robots. If you look forward to owning a robot, check out these games to get excited about future technology like androids or cyborgs. All 1, Multiplayer 4 Y8 Games Sort by: Popularity Rating Date. G Flash. Rebellious Robots WebGL. Snow Battle io WebGL. Mecha Dress Up Game Flash.