RoboCup
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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.
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[edit] RoboCup competitions
The contest currently has four major competitions, each with a number of leagues:
- RoboCupSoccer
- Simulation League
- Small Size League
- Middle Size League
- Standard Platform League (formerly Four Legged League)
- Humanoid League
- RoboCupRescue
- Rescue Simulation League
- Real Rescue Robot League
- RoboCupJunior
- Soccer Challenge
- Dance Challenge
- Rescue Challenge
- General
- RoboCup@Home
The RoboCup@Home competition debuted in 2006, and focuses on the introduction of autonomous robots to human society.
[edit] Venues
| Venue | Number of teams | Number of countries | Number of participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| RoboCup 2007 Atlanta - USA | 321[2] | 39[3] | 1966 |
| RoboCup 2006 Bremen - Germany | 440 | 35 | |
| RoboCup 2005 Osaka - Japan | 419 | 35 | |
| RoboCup 2004 Lisbon - Portugal | 345 | 37 | |
| RoboCup 2003 Padua - 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 | 38 | 11 | |
| Pre-RoboCup-96 event - Osaka - Japan | 8 | - |
Next Venue: RoboCup 2008 - Suzhou, China
[edit] Notes
RoboCup is not to be confused with RobotCub, a humanoid robot project with the aim of studying cognition through robotics.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- RoboCup teams
- Borregos RoboCup Teams - Monterrey Tech - México
- AllemaniACs RoboCup Team, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- dInfoBots – University of Palermo
- Impossibles Team – Sharif University of Technology, Iran
- Brainstormers Tribots – University of Osnabrueck
- Mostly Harmless – Graz University of Technology
- Virtual Werder 3D - University of Bremen
- Parsian - Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
- Persian Gulf RoboCup Team - Azad University, Iran
- Plasma-Z - Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Dutch Robotics - 3TU - The Netherlands
- Little Green BATS - University of Groningen
- NimbRo - University of Freiburg, Germany
- MRL Rescue Simulation - Azad University of Qazvin, Iran
- RoboJackets – Georgia Institute of Technology
- TecRams ITESM-CEM Aibo Team
- TeamOsaka – Japan
- Northern Bites - Bowdoin College, USA
- Botnia – Vaasa University of Applied Sciences, Finland
- No feel for the ball, on the 2006 RoboCup in Bremen, at signandsight.com
- RoboCup Atlanta Report, the 2007 RoboCup in Atlanta, at SaySport
[edit] 2006 links
- http://www.robocup2006.org/start?lang=en – Official website
- http://www.robocup.zdf.de – Information from official sponsor ZDF
- http://www.heute.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/27/0,4070,3917691-1,00.html Live streams from the playing fields
[edit] 2007 links
[edit] 2008 links
[edit] 2009 links
[edit] RoboCup Local Events
[edit] References
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3.Robocup Official Site
4.Robocup Junior Official Site
5.Robocup Introduction & Three RoboCup Junior Team Websites (Myleghurts, Normalforce & The Covenant)
6. Domabotic's RoboCup Forum
