ROBOT Soccer Championships - Part 2
by Dave Calkins

Last month, I wrote about RoboCup — the Japan-based robot soccer organization — most famous for Aibo soccer. This month, we’ll be examining the Korea-based FIRA — the Federation International Robot-soccer Association. FIRA is a play on the word FIFA — the Federation Internationale de Football Association — which is the governing body of [human] soccer. Both FIRA and RoboCup would like to eventually create autonomous humanoid robots that can beat the FIFA world champions.