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On last night's episode of The Amazing Race, teams were rushing around Japan and had the option to either go smell some flowers or go play with some robots. Luckily, one team chose robots, so we got to see some sweet cellphone-robot-soccer action.
Racers competed in a robot soccer game at SYSTEC AKAZAWA, controlling a PLEN model robot (PDF specs), pictured here. Like him? He'll only set you back about $2,400. This makes you wonder how much the tricked out custom robots the other players were using cost. One thing is certain - if the Japanese kids controlling them hadn't had their robots all but dive out of the way of the racers' attempts at goals, that team still wouldn't have be done with that leg of the race.
This segment illustrated the massive robot literacy gap we face here in the United States. Senators - please introduce mandatory robot soccer stadium construction legislation. Do it for the children.
