It is not feasible, with the current technologies to accomplish this goal in any near term. However, this goal can easily create a series of well directed subgoals. Such an approach is common is any ambitious, or overly ambitious, project. In case of the american space program, the Mercury project and the Gemini project, which manned orbital mission, were two precursors to the Apollo mission. The Standard Problem One other aspect of RoboCup is a view that RoboCup is a standard problem so that various theories, algorithms, and architectures can be evaluated.
Computer chess is a typical example of the standard problem.
Various search algorithms were evaluated and developed using this domain. With the recent accomplishment by the Deep Blue team, which beated Garry Kasparov, a human grand master, using the official rule, computer chess challenge is close to the finale. One of the major reasons for the success of computer chess as a standard problem is that the evaluation of the progress was clearly defined. The progress of the research can be evaluated as a strength of the system, which was indicated as the rating. However, as computer chess is about to complete its original goal, we need a new challenge.