RoboCup held in Paris, France. 22 Countries are represented by 70 teams over 20,000 people attend. RoboCup-98 held in Stockholm, Sweden. Once the game starts, the robots play by themselves, without any human intervention. No remote controls.
Some teams have robots with very different capabilities.
The important issue for the landmark project is to set the goal high enough so that a series of technical breakthroughs are necessary to accomplish the task, and the goal needs to be widely appealing and exciting. In addition to this, knowledge necessary to accomplish the goal must be the technology that can form the foundation of the next generation industries. Hiroaki Kitano, RoboCup Federation President. RoboCup Junior download this press release Entries are now open to schools world wide, for the RoboCup Junior 2000 soccer. The competition is open to all enthusiastic science students who can design and build a team of robots that will compete against other school teams during August.