Or they'll paint their head like a soccer ball to make sure that the updated AI works properly. These sorts of failures demand stress-tests. What if a future team has a soccer-ball-headed mascot?
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...
It’s not hard to fix your software that you created. It’s much harder to get global consensus on a change that wasn’t required before your buggy code was released into the wild.
A few companies actually managed to get a production process that put a chip in the ball without affecting flight characteristics (there are a lot of regulations around this), and these balls were used in competition once (Club World Cup 2012).
Ironically, the most complicated bit is the sensors in the posts.
All GLT is Computer Vision based now.
my understanding is that QR works way better for moving images
Note the irony here: what people don't want is the dystopia, but what's stopping it now is that they find barcoding people creepy. They won't notice the AI tech until it's too late.
On a broader note, this pattern of rounding a square peg to fit if we can't square the round hole - it's what we do. All the time, everywhere. For instance, designing a reliable all-terrain vehicle is something that technologically escapes now even to this day, but thousands of years ago our ancestors figured out that if they flatten and pave the terrain, then a simple wheel would do.