RoboCup


RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition proposed and founded in 1996 by a group of university professors. 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 Soccer World Cup", but there are many other areas of competition such as "RoboCupRescue", "RoboCup@Home" and "RoboCupJunior". In , the international competition was held in Sydney, Australia. is the current president of RoboCup, and has been since 2019.
“Competition pushes advances in technologies. What we learn from robots playing soccer or navigating a maze can be applied to industry and help us solve difficult real-world problems,” according to Professor Maurice Pagnucco, Head of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW.
The official goal of the project:

RoboCup leagues

The contest currently has six major domains of competition, each with a number of leagues and sub-leagues. These include:
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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 first International Micro Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament 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 2021. Bangkok, the host for robocup 25, will host in 2022.

RoboCup Asia-Pacific editions

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YearHost CityHost CountryNumber of teamsNumber of countriesNumber of participants
RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017Bangkok
RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2018Kish Island
RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2018Dubai
RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2019Moscow

RoboCup local events

2020

Events were cancelled due to COVID-19

2019

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