RoboCup

RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition founded in 1996 by a group of university professors (including Hiroaki Kitano, Manuela M. Veloso, and Minoru Asada). The aim of the competition is to promote robotics and AI research by offering a publicly appealing – but formidable – challenge.
The name RoboCup is a contraction of the competition's full name, "Robot World Cup Initiative" (based on the FIFA World Cup), but there are many other areas of competition such as "RoboCupRescue", "RoboCup@Home" and "RoboCupJunior". Peter Stone is the current president of RoboCup, and has been since 2019.
The official goal of the project is:
"By the middle of the 21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official rules of FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup."
RoboCup leagues
The contest currently has six major domains of competition, each with a number of leagues and sub-leagues. These include:
RoboCup Soccer
Standard Platform League (formerly Four Legged League) (Standard Platform League Homepage)
Small Size League
Middle Size League (Middle Size League Homepage)
Simulation League
2D Soccer Simulation
3D Soccer Simulation
Humanoid League
RoboCup Rescue League
Rescue Robot League
Rescue Simulation League
Rapidly Manufactured Robot Challenge
RoboCup@Home, which debuted in 2006, focuses on the introduction of autonomous robots to human society
RoboCup@Home Open Platform League (formerly just RoboCup@Home)
Robocup@Home Domestic Standard Platform League
RoboCup@Home Social Standard Platform League
RoboCup Logistics League, which debuted in 2012, is an application-driven league inspired by the industrial scenario of a smart factory
RoboCup@Work, which debuted in 2016, "targets the use of robots in work-related scenarios"
RoboCupJunior
Soccer League
OnStage (formerly Dance) League
Rescue League
Rescue CoSpace League
Each team is fully autonomous in all RoboCup leagues. Once the game starts, the only input from any human is from the referee.
RoboCup editions
The formal RoboCup competition was preceded by the (often unacknowledged) first International Micro Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament (MIROSOT) held by KAIST in Taejon, Korea, in November 1996. This was won by an American team from Newton Labs, and the competition was shown on CNN.
RoboCup was canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19. The planned host location of Bordeaux will host in 2023.
RoboCup Asia-Pacific editions
European RoboCupJunior Championship
RoboCup local events
2021
RoboCup Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
RoboCup Portugal Open, virtual
RoboCup Russia Open, Tomsk, Russia
RoboCup Brazil Open, virtual
2020
RoboCup Japan Open 2020, virtual
RoboCup China Open 2020, virtual
RoboCup Brazil Open 2020, virtual
Events were cancelled due to COVID-19
2019
RoboCup Portuguese Open 2019, Gondomar, Portugal
RoboCup Brazil Open 2019, Rio Grande, Brazil
RoboCup Asia Pacific 2019, Moscow, Russia
RoboCup German Open 2019, Magdeburg, Germany
RoboCup China Open 2019, Shaoxing, China
2018
RoboCup Portugal Open 2018, Torres Vedras, Portugal
RoboCup Asia Pacific 2018, Kish Island, Iran
RoboCup Iran Open 2018, Tehran, Iran
RoboCup UAE 2018, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
RoboCup German Open 2018, Magdeburg, Germany
2017
RoboCup Portugal Open 2017, Coimbra, Portugal
RoboCup Iran Open 2017, Tehran, Iran
RoboCup German Open 2017, Magdeburg, Germany
RoboCup Russia Open 2017, Tomsk, Russia
RoboCup US Open 2017, Miami, United States
RoboCup China Open 2017, Shaoxing, China
2016
RoboCup Portugal Open 2016, Bragança, Portugal
RoboCup China Open 2016, Hefei, China
RoboCup European Open 2016, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2015
RoboCup Portugal Open 2015, Vila Real, Portugal
RoboCup China Open 2015, Guiyang, China
RoboCup Iran Open 2015, Tehran, Iran
GermanOpen 2015, Magdeburg, Germany
2014
RoboCup Portugal Open 2014, Espinho, Portugal
RoboCup China Open 2014, Hefei, China
RoboCup Iran Open 2014, Tehran, Iran
RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, Germany
2013
RoboCup Portugal Open 2013, Lisbon, Portugal
RoboCup Iran Open 2013, Tehran, Iran
RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, Germany
2012
RoboCup Portugal Open 2012, Guimarães, Portugal
RoboCup Dutch Open, Eindhoven, Netherlands
RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, Germany
RoboCup Iran Open, Tehran, Iran
RoboCup SSL North American Open, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2011
RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, Germany
RoboCup Portugal Open, Lisboa, Portugal
RoboCup Iran Open 2011, Tehran, Iran
2010
RoboCup Portugal Open, Leiria, Portugal
Iran Open 2010, Tehran, Iran
Latin America & Brazil Open 2010, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
RoboCup Mediterranean Open 2010, Rome, Italy
RoboCup German Open (unofficial all-European tournament), Magdeburg, Germany
AUT Cup 2010, Tehran, Iran
See also
RoboCup Junior
Robot
Botball
FIRST
BEST Robotics
RobotCub Consortium, a humanoid robot project to study cognition via robotics
References
External links
RoboCup@Home league, aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications.
Engineering competitions
Dance animation
Recurring events established in 1997
Articles containing video clips
Robotics competitions