[robocup-humanoid] Humanoid League Long Term Roadmap (1st Draft)

[Phil Culverhouse]

Hi All,

It is very helpful to have a view on the way the developments must go if
our robots are to play football with humans.

However, I think we should consider keeping two size classes going
throughout. One that grows to full-size and one that stays at kid-size.

This is because the cost of full size humanoid robot is probably in the
region of $100,000. Yet a 5-a-side team of kid size is probably $50,000.
The public will be almost as excited watching robot teams playing as a
mixed human-robot game. Only a few institutions will be able to afford to
develop full size robots also. More will be able to develop kid size, and
hence engage the future engineers needed to work on the big robots.

Regards

Phil



Phil Culverhouse
Centre for Robotics & Neural Systems,
University of Plymouth,
Plymouth PL4 8AA,
UK
Tel +44 1752 586294
pculverhouse at plymouth.ac.uk






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