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Figure 5. Team Electric Sheep (New Zealand, red) competing in its first round-robin
game at RoboCup 2019. (Source: Humayun Khan, University of Canterbury,
New Zealand; used with permission.)

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lighting conditions and reliably detects
balls up to 10 m away (Figure 3). Furthermore, an advanced capture stepbased push recovery and a novel in-walk
kick motion made the robot's games
more dynamic and harder for opponents to counteract. KidSize champion team Rhoban (http://rhoban
.com/) strongly improved its teamplay, too, relying on accurate odometry and taking into account the
uncertainty of the ball trajectory
when kicking (Figure 4).
A special concern of the RoboCup
community is to keep the competition
challenging for the more advanced
research institutes, while encouraging
participation by newly established
teams. A culture of sharing open software and hardware developments, as
well as lessons learned, significantly
lowers the barrier for new teams like
Electric Sheep (https://humanoid
.science/). Within less than a year, the
team was formed, developed its first
humanoid robot platform, adapted sufficiently stable walking on artificial grass
as well as vision and localization algorithms on a field with only white goal
posts and lines, and managed to compete in the 2019 KidSize league (Figure 5). However, the fact that a robot
will fall and so need to recover from falls
regularly puts hard constraints on high
gear-ratio reduction. Team Electric
Sheep was not alone in facing this challenge, but it eventually cost them critical
points in their first competition.
Following the long-term road map of
the league, major steps are foreseen for
RoboCup 2020, to be held in Bordeaux,
France. Among others, the Humanoid
Open Competition will introduce an
exciting new freestyle soccer competition for all robots with bipedal locomotion. The Humanoid Research
Demonstration invites researchers from
academia and industry to showcase any
advanced humanoid robotic abilities
related to RoboCup. The new structure
of the Humanoid League provides a
competitive environment to benchmark
humanoid robots in a task-driven setup,
while allowing greater openness to sharing knowledge and welcoming newcomers in the field.



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