Playing Alkagi with a humanoid robot

This paper presents a humanoid robot playing a game called Alkagi. Alkagi is a game in which one shoots a Go stone to hit an opponent´s stone with the goal of making the opponent´s stone fall out of the Go board. When the position of a Go stone is obtained using a vision system, the robot places its hand at the desired position and orientation in order to shoot the stone to a desired direction. The proposed method is demonstrated using an Aldebaran NAO humanoid robot.