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RoboCup also has leagues for wheeled robots, where there's a lot less falling over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y5_iGxWFrQ

The humanoid robot leagues are constrained by cost - several of the simulated leagues, including the one shown in your video, have a corresponding physical league. And the physical league needs two teams of NAO robots, which cost ~$8000 each, and there are 11 on each team. So you're looking at $176,000 of student project for the physical league. You've correctly identified they don't work very well - but more agile robot hardware would cost even more. I've never seen two atlas robots together, let alone 22!




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