RoboCup

RoboCup

RoboCup

Annual robotics competition

RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition founded[1] 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.

A robot attempts to kick the ball at RoboCup 2013.

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."[2]

RoboCup leagues

Team rUNSWift competing in the Standard Platform League at RoboCup 2010 in Singapore
NimbRo-OP2X[3] robot in Humanoid AdultSize game át RoboCup 2018 in Montreal.
RoboCup 2019 Humanoid AdultSize winner NimbRo

The contest currently has six major domains of competition, each with a number of leagues and sub-leagues. These include:

Each team is fully autonomous in all RoboCup leagues. Once the game starts, the only input from any human is from the referee.[7]

RoboCup editions

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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.[10]

RoboCup was canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19. The planned host location of Bordeaux will host in 2023.

RoboCup Asia-Pacific editions

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European RoboCupJunior Championship

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RoboCup local events

Warwick Mobile Robotics (from the University of Warwick) robot navigates red step fields, in the RoboCupRescue arena at the 2009 RoboCup German Open
Brainstormers Tribots (from Universität Osnabrück) play RFC Stuttgart (from Universität Stuttgart) in the RoboCupSoccer Middle-Size League at the 2009 RoboCup German Open

2024

•German open in Kassel

2023

•German open

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[12]

2019

2018

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

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

See also

References

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    "RoboCup: Objective". RoboCup. 1998. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
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    Ficht, Grzegorz; Farazi, Hafez; Brandenburger, Andre; Rodriguez, Diego; Pavlichenko, Dmytro; Allgeuer, Philipp; Hosseini, Mojtaba; Behnke, Sven (2018). "NimbRo-OP2X: Adult-Sized Open-Source 3D Printed Humanoid Robot". 2018 IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids). Beijing, China: IEEE. pp. 1–9. arXiv:1810.08395. Bibcode:2018arXiv181008395F. doi:10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2018.8625038. ISBN 978-1-5386-7283-9. S2CID 53044123.
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    "RoboCup@Home – Where the best domestic service robots test themselves". RoboCup@Home. Robocup Federation, Inc. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
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    "Welcome to RoboCup@Work!". RoboCup@Work. Robocup Federation, Inc. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
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    "RoboCupJunior – Creating a learning environment for today, fostering technological advancement for tomorrow". junior.robocup.org. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
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    "A New Goal for Open Source". Red Hat Blog. Red Hat, Inc. 20 May 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
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    "RoboCup WM 2016 kommt nach Leipzig". 22 July 2014.
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    "RoboCup2017 Nagoya Japan(ロボカップ2017)". Archived from the original on 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
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    "Robot Soccer at Newton Research Labs". www.newtonlabs.com. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
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    "ICCA member press release: Thailand Robotics Week 2017 & RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017". Retrieved 2021-08-04.
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    "Statement from RoboCup Federation and Bordeaux RoboCup LOC: Corona Virus (COVID-19)". www.robocup.org. Retrieved 2020-07-01.

Media related to RoboCup at Wikimedia Commons

  • Official website
  • RoboCup@Home league, aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications.
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