We traveled to Lausanne, Switzerland, where the Ecole Polytechnique Federale has created a robotic foosball. And don’t talk about a football themed technological, nor a virtual football, but that this football has an impersonal opponent, a robot that has the capabilities of an average player. This Spanish invention is one of the most recognized worldwide after the Chupa Chups, so could not miss its technology namesake, this robot that plays table football to delight lovers of this “sport” when they are not with who play. We tell you a bit more about this curious contraption and the history of foosball.
For start, not find in this gadget it typical table of good wood, the field of this foosball is created in methacrylate transparent, This will help to them sensors of the robot and the cameras of Superspeed to capture every movement and calculate the next action of this peculiar robot. Cameras aimed at the field of play are able to capture three hundred images per second and keep up with the ball and the location of all the players at the same time. Then, are the traditional electrical motorcillos who are responsible that bars that hold the players carried out the usual movements, both movements Rotary as impulses and collected to move players laterally.
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Unfortunately, this foosball has with them players of a single leg, them more hated by them true lovers of the Foosball, and is that in Spain them players are representations physical such which, them players have two legs and a torso, tend to represent to some team real. Out of Spain is common to find a football with little aesthetic players and very small sizes, what prevents perform real magic on the pitch, but it is what it is.
According to the developers, the robotic foosball has the capabilities of a normal player, little experienced, although something is something. Now are working in a second robot that les allow compete between themselves, since the robot current is located quite only. Once the second robot, they put them to play against each other 24 hours a day, as well, will initiate a program of automatic lease that will lead them to improve his technique and strategy, to become true and decent people rivals.
History and significance of the Foosball, invented Spanish
The football’s table as you know. In Spain has charged special transcendence, and his field of game is enough more wide that in the rest of countries, being usually suitable for four players (2vs2). The first apparent appearance between 1880 and 1990 in Germany (officially the true inventors), where the model was small and with legs United in a single shovel, something quite unusual in Spain. The idea arose of Alexandre fields Ramirez, a child wounded during the Guerra Civil to which is you prevented enjoy of the football as to the rest of their friends, so tried to supplement the lack of correcalles and kicks physical in a game of table. Between Alexandre and Francosci Javier Altuna, a Carpenter Basque, gave shape to this idea.
However, after the Guerra Civil, due to the exile of the Spanish, the football began to expand is by Europe and America of the South. The game was taken as a national invention, and whether or not it its origins, if they are the rules that are used here and the broad two-legged model. These would be those models official of the football:
- He model Spanish, with the field curved down towards the Center and the dolls metal with them legs open.
- The international model, with plastic or wooden dolls and with legs together.
There is currently a Spanish Federation of football makes official tournaments, which accommodates the lovers of this “sport” as our. The Chinese have ping pong (although also born in England), we have the football.
