RoboCup

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A legged league game from RoboCup 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal.

RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1993. The aim is to develop autonomous robots with the intention of promoting research and education in the field of artificial intelligence. The name RoboCup is a contraction of the competition's full name, "Robot Soccer World Cup".

The official goal of the project[1]:

By mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, complying with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup.

Which is commonly abbreviated to:

By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team.

See also: Football (word) for a clarification of the terms "football" and "soccer". In the case of RoboCup, "soccer" refers to "association football", commonly abbreviated to "football" in European countries.

1 RoboCup competitions
2 Venues
3 See also
4 External links
- 4.1 2006 links

[edit] RoboCup competitions

Team Osaka's humanoid robots

The contest currently has three major divisions, each with a number of leagues:

RoboCupSoccer
- Simulation League
- Small Size League
- Middle Size League
- Four Legged League
- Humanoid League
RoboCup Rescue
- Rescue Simulation League
- Real Rescue Robot League
RoboCupJunior
- Soccer Challenge
- Dance Challenge
- Rescue Challenge
- Genereal

RoboCup@Home

Starting in 2006, a new category called RoboCup@Home is being introduced to tackle problems related to the introduction of autonomous robots within society.

[edit] Venues

Venue	Number of Participants	Number of Countries
RoboCup 2006 Bremen - Germany	440	35
RoboCup 2005 Osaka - Japan	419	35
RoboCup 2004 Lisbon - Portugal	345	37
RoboCup 2003 Padova - Italy	238	35
RoboCup 2002 Fukuoka/Busan - Japan/Korea	188	29
RoboCup 2001 Seattle - USA	141	22
RoboCup 2000 Melbourne - Australia	110	19
RoboCup 1999 Stockholm - Sweden	85	23
RoboCup 1998 Paris - France	63	19
RoboCup 1997 Nagoya - Japan - First official RoboCup competition	38	11
Pre-RoboCup-96 event - Osaka - Japan	8	-