Robots 1 - Humans 0

The most appropriate strikers, defenders and midfield players in the drudge football world are getting in Istanbul.

The teams and their coaches are there is to culmination of the 2011 non-human soccer monthly calendar - the RoboCup.

The contest sees teams from all around the world array their creations, be they done from bolts or bytes, against other drudge teams.

The 2011 tournament includes a of the UK's initial drudge football teams.

Now in its 14th year, the RoboCup was set up with the target of creating, by 2050, a group of humanoid robots that can take on and beat the most appropriate human players.

The contest aims to urge on enhancement in drudge office building by getting roboteers to plunge into the many problems that personification football embodies.

Not usually do group coaches have to knock out simple problems such as vision, but they moreover have to work on how to obtain their players behaving as a team. All robots personification the diversion have to be unconstrained - nonetheless the machines can barter data wirelessly. Play contingency moreover be satisfactory as no barging, restraint or heartwarming is allowed.

UK group Edinferno from the University of Edinburgh has won a place in the last and is up against 27 other teams in what is well known as the "standard platform" league.

Every group in this joining uses humanoid Nao robots done by French definite Aldebaran Robotics. The robots are typical but the on-board program determining their sensors, actuators and limbs is custom-written to try to make the most appropriate of the machine's capabilities.

The UK moreover has an fascination in the Noxious Kouretes group that is coached by the Technical University of Crete together with the University of Wales and Oxford University.

In addition, a number of UK schools have competent is to subordinate competition.

Other leagues at the tournament will see contest amid unnatural players (both 2D and 3D), tiny robots, medium-sized robots and teams done of humanoid robots.

In 2010, about 500 teams from about 40 nations - inclusive Iran, Taiwan and Chile - took segment in the RoboCup's assorted tournaments.

In new years, the tournament has grown to add more than just football. Allied competitions casing made at home robots that bring out chores around the residence and rescue robots that help crisis services.