In today's unique episode, robots from the Dutch Nao Team (Naos are the little humanoids shown in the photo) compete against each other at football (⚽️) while Dário Catarrinho, a developer on the team, describes the machine learning involved.

The Dutch Nao Team is one of many international teams that competes annually in RoboCup Federation tournaments. The lofty goal of the RoboCup competitions is to develop a team of humanoid robots that is able to win against the human World Cup Championship team by the year 2050. Very cool.

Dario, my human guest in today's episode is Secretary of the Dutch Nao Team as well as a software developer on the team. He's also pursuing a degree in A.I. at the University of Amsterdam.

Most of today’s episode should be accessible to anyone but occasionally Dario and I talk a bit technically about ML algorithms so those brief parts might be most meaningful to hands-on practitioners.

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