KiRo – A Table Soccer Robot Ready for the Market

Abstract

This paper presents the autonomous table soccer robot KiRo. KiRo provides a competitive challenge for even advanced human players and is well suited as a toy or even as a training partner for professional players. Moreover, the table soccer game represents a demanding testbed for evaluating a multitude of techniques and approaches in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence. KiRo has reached a technically mature level and will be commercially available by January 2005.