RoboCup
A robot attempts to kick the ball at RoboCup 2013.
RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition proposed[1] and founded in 1996 by a group of university professors (including Hiroaki Kitano, Manuela M. Veloso, and ). 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 2019, the international competition was held in Sydney, Australia. Peter Stone 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 , Head of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW.[2]
The official goal of the project:
- "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."[3]
RoboCup leagues[]
Team rUNSWift competing in the Standard Platform League at RoboCup 2010 in Singapore
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:
- RoboCup Soccer
- RoboCup Rescue League
- RoboCup@Home,[5] 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,[6] which debuted in 2016, "targets the use of robots in work-related scenarios"
- RoboCupJunior[7]
Each team is fully autonomous in all RoboCup leagues. Once the game starts, the only input from any human is from the referee.[8]
RoboCup editions[]
| Number | Year | Host City | Host Country | Number of teams | Number of countries | Number of participants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nagoya |  Japan
|
38 | 11 | ||
| 2 | Paris |  France
|
63 | 19 | ||
| 3 | Stockholm |  Sweden
|
85 | 23 | ||
| 4 | Melbourne |  Australia
|
110 | 19 | ||
| 5 | Seattle |  United States
|
141 | 22 | ||
| 6 | Fukuoka | Japan
|
197 | 29 | ||
| 7 | Padua |  Italy
|
238 | 35 | ||
| 8 | Lisbon |  Portugal
|
345 | 37 | ||
| 9 | Osaka | Japan
|
387 | 36 | ||
| 10 | Bremen |  Germany
|
440 | 35 | ||
| 11 | Atlanta | United States
|
321 | 39 | 1,966 | |
| 12 | Suzhou |  People's Republic of China
|
373 | 35 | ||
| 13 | Graz |  Austria
|
407 | 43 | 2,472 | |
| 14 | Singapore |  Singapore
|
500 | 40 | 3,000 | |
| 15 | Istanbul |  Turkey
|
451 | 40 | 2,691 | |
| 16 | Mexico City |  Mexico
|
381 | 42 | 2,356 | |
| 17 | Eindhoven |  Netherlands
|
410 | 45 | 3,033 | |
| 18 | João Pessoa |  Brazil
|
358 | 45 | 2,900 | |
| 19 | Hefei | People's Republic of China[9]
|
346 | 43 | 2,032 | |
| 20 | Leipzig | Germany[10]
|
404 | 45 | 3,500 | |
| 21 | Nagoya | Japan[11]
|
500 | 50 | 2,520 | |
| 22 | Montreal |  Canada
|
360 | 40 | 2,345 | |
| 23 | Sydney | Australia
|
335 | 40 | 2,200 | |
| 24 | Virtual | 317 | 43 | 2,129 | ||
| 25 | Bangkok |  Thailand
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| 26 | Bordeaux | France
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The formal RoboCup competition was preceded by the (often unacknowledged) first (MIROSOT) held by KAIST in Taejon, Korea, in November 1996. This was won by an American team from , and the competition was shown on CNN.[12]
RoboCup was canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19. The planned host location of Bordeaux will host in 2023.
RoboCup Asia-Pacific editions[]
| Year | Host City | Host Country | Number of teams | Number of countries | Number of participants | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangkok | Thailand
|
130+ [13] | 25 | 1000+ | [1] | |
| Kish Island |  Iran
|
[2] | ||||
| Dubai |  United Arab Emirates
|
[3] | ||||
| Moscow |  Russia
|
[4] | ||||
| Virtual | [5] | |||||
| Aichi Prefecture / Virtual | Japan
|
[6] |
European RoboCupJunior Championship[]
| Year | Host City | Host Country | Number of teams | Number of countries | Number of participants | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pescara | Italy
|
[7] | ||||
| Hannover | Germany
|
[8] | ||||
| European RoboCupJunior Championship 2020 | Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | |||||
| European RoboCupJunior Championship 2021 | Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | |||||
| Guimarães | Portugal
|
[9] | ||||
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
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[14]
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[]
2010[]
- 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
RoboCup teams[]
Team rUNSWift competing in the 4-Legged League at Bremen, Germany, 2006
Team CASualty competing in the Rescue Robot League at Singapore, 2010
United Arab Emirates
- UAE Team
Australia
- rUNSWift – University of New South Wales
- NUbots – University of Newcastle
- UTS Unleashed! – University of Technology Sydney
- UTS-USTC WrightEagle Unleashed! – University of Technology Sydney and University of Science and Technology of China
- Karachi Koalas – University of Technology Sydney and Institute of Business Administration
- RobotAssist – University of Technology Sydney
Austria
- GRIPS – Graz University of Technology
- Austrian-Kangaroos – Vienna University of Technology and University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
- RRT-Team –
Brazil
- RobôCIn - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
- EDROM – Federal University of Uberlândia
- RoboIME – Instituto Militar de Engenharia
- ITANDROIDS – Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
- UnBeatables – University of Brasilia
- Jaguar – Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro
- DROID – University of Brasilia
- UnBall – University of Brasilia
- Pequi Mecânico – Federal University of Goiás
- Bahia Robotics Team – Bahia State University
- Warthog Robotics – University of São Paulo
- RoboFEI – Centro Universitário da FEI
- NIPAR – Federal University of Technology Paraná
- Molibdênio – Colégio Objetivo
- Positronics – Colégio Santa Emília
- Comphaus – University of São Paulo
Canada
- Thunderbots – University of British Columbia
- Walking Machine – École de Technologie Supérieure
- Naova – École de Technologie Supérieure
- UTRA - University of Toronto
Chile
- Sysmic Robotics – Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
- UChile Homebreakers – Universidad de Chile
- UChile Robotics Team (SPL) – Universidad de Chile
China
- Water – Beijing Information Science & Technology University
- TJArk – Tongji University
- ZjuNlict – Zhejiang University
- WrightEagle – University of Science and Technology of China
- AUA – Anhui University of Architecture
- MT – Hefei University of Technology
Colombia
- STOx's – Universidad Santo Tomás
Croatia
- Hrvatski robotički savez
- Udruga Robofreak
Finland
- Botnia – Vaasa University of Applied Sciences
France
- Rhoban Football Club – Bordeaux University
- The Three Musketeers – Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University and University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis
- CPE Lyon – École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon
- Robot Club Toulon - Université de Toulon
Germany
- Nao-Devils – Technical University of Dortmund
- RT-Lions – Reutlingen University
- AllemaniACs RoboCup Team – RWTH Aachen University
- AutonOHM – Technische Hochschule Nürnberg
- Nao-Team HTWK – Leipzig University of Applied Sciences
- b-it bots – Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
- B-Human – University of Bremen
- Brainstormers – University of Freiburg
- C-PALB–CJD – CJD Christophorusschule Königswinter
- Carologistics – RWTH Aachen University and Aachen University of Applied Sciences
- Carpe Noctem – University of Kassel
- LUHbots – Leibniz Universität Hannover
- NimbRo – University of Bonn
- Virtual Werder 3D – University of Bremen
- Bembelbots – Goethe University Frankfurt
- FRA-UNIted – Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
- FUmanoids – Freie Universität Berlin
- GETbot – Universität Paderborn
- magmaOffenburg – University of Applied Sciences Offenburg
- Darmstadt Dribblers – Technische Universität Darmstadt
- Team Hector Darmstadt – Technische Universität Darmstadt
- NaoTH – Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
- WF Wolves – Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften
- Hamburg Bit-Bots – Universität Hamburg
- Hamburg Ultra Legendary Kickers HULKs – Technische Universität Hamburg
- BavarianBendingUnits – Technische Universität München and Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
- TIGERs Mannheim – Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University
- Robotics Erlangen
Greece
- Kouretes – Technical University of Crete
- P.A.N.D.O.R.A. – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Hungary
- Rescube – Datastart Ltd.
India
- AcYut – Birla Institute of Technology and Science
- Forever EV3 – Bal Bharati Public School (Byte Club)[15][16]
- KGP Kubs – Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Indonesia
- EROS, Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya
- ICHIRO – Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember
Iran
- Fast And Smart -
- Cyrus Soccer Simulation 2D Team –
- IRC Humanoid Team – Islamic Azad University
- Razi Research Team (R2T) – Islamic Azad University
- Immortals – University of Tehran
- Anti Virus_B -
- Eslam-B –
- Farzanegan1 – Tehran Farzanegan School
- Aryan – Islamic Azad University
- Nexus – Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
- YRA Teams – Islamic Azad University
- MarliK – University of Guilan
- VRU Robotics Group – University of Rafsanjan
- Cyrus – Shahid Beheshti University
- Ziziphus – Islamic Azad University
- ROBO CSW -
- Sina –
- S.O.S. – Amirkabir University of Technology
- EmJa ETERNALS –
- S2PLUS –
- Positron –
- ResQuake Robotic Team – K. N. Toosi University of Technology
- IUST Robotics Community Teams – Iran University of Science and Technology
- MRL Teams – Islamic Azad University
- POOYESH –
- DANESH – Danesh High School
- XeneX RoboCup Team –
- Parsian Team – Amirkabir University of Technology
- Impossibles Team – Sharif University of Technology
- Persian Gulf RoboCup Team – Islamic Azad University
- BraveCircles – Sheikh Bahaei University
- PersianGulf3D – Payame Noor University
- Paydar -
- Persia Humanoid Team – Islamic Azad University
- LegenDary – University of Guilan and Shahid Beheshti University
Ireland
- Robo Eireann – Maynooth University
Israel
- RoBIU – Bar-Ilan University
Italy
- dInfoBots – University of Palermo
- SPQR Team – Sapienza University of Rome
Japan
- JEAP – Osaka University
- eR@sers – Tamagawa University
South Korea** KUDOS – Kookmin University
Mexico
- Borregos RoboCup Teams – Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
- Cyberlords – Universidad La Salle
- Eagle Knights – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
- Golem – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Leones –
- Pumas – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Robótica UP – Universidad Panamericana
- TecRams – Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Netherlands
- RoboTeam Twente – University of Twente
- Tech United Eindhoven – Eindhoven University of Technology
- [10] Robohub Eindhoven – Fontys University of Applied Sciences
- Dutch Robotics – 4TU
- BORG – University of Groningen
- Dutch Nao Team – Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Swarmlab – Maastricht University
- Robot Sports
- Falcons
- Small Size Holland – Saxion University of Applied Sciences
New Zealand
Pakistan
- SAVIOUR – Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology
- Karachi Koalas – Institute of Business Administration and University of Technology Sydney
- NUST – National University of Sciences and Technology
Portugal
- ISocRob – Instituto Superior Técnico
- CAMBADA – University of Aveiro
- MinhoTeam – University of Minho
Romania
Spain
- TeamChaos – University of Murcia, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Universidad de Alicante
- SPIteam – Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Rovira i Virgili University and University of Leon
- Los Hidalgos – Polytechnic University of Valencia and University of Murcia
- Artificial Intelligence Research Group – Pompeu Fabra University
Taiwan
- NTU RoboPal – National Taiwan University
Thailand
- BART LAB Rescue Team – Mahidol University
- Plasma-Z, Plasma-RX, Plasma-MK – Chulalongkorn University
- SKUBA – Kasetsart University
- iRAProbot – King Mongkut's University of Technology
Turkey
- Yildiz – Yildiz Technical University
- Cerberus – Bogazici University
- RoboAKUT – Bogazici University
- beeStanbul – Istanbul Technical University
Northern Cyprus
- NEUIslanders – Near East University
United Kingdom
- ORIon [11] – University of Oxford
- Bold Hearts [12] – University of Hertfordshire
- Calday Robotics
- Christ's College Finchley
- Edinferno – University of Edinburgh
- Plymouth Humanoids
- Warwick Mobile Robotics – University of Warwick
Switzerland
- Z-Knipsers – Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
- Team Solidus –
United States
- CMDragons – Carnegie Mellon University
- ISI – University of Southern California
- Northern Bites – Bowdoin College
- Red Knights - Benilde-St. Margaret's
- RoboCats – Ohio University
- RoboJackets – Georgia Institute of Technology
- RoboPatriots – George Mason University
- UT Austin Villa – University of Texas at Austin
- RoMeLa – University of California
- UPennalizers – University of Pennsylvania
- RFC Cambridge – Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Singapore
- Robo-Erectus, Field Rangers, Robo-Erectus@Work – Singapore Polytechnic
Media articles[]
See also[]
- RoboCup Junior
- Robot
- Botball
- FIRST
- BEST Robotics
- RobotCub Consortium, a humanoid robot project to study cognition via robotics
References[]
- ^ "RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative". RoboCup. 1995. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.49.7511. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - ^ Pagnucco, Professor Maurice. "RoboCup 2019". Business Events Sydney. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
- ^ "RoboCup: Objective". RoboCup. 1998. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
- ^ 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: 1–9. arXiv:1810.08395. Bibcode:2018arXiv181008395F. doi:10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2018.8625038. ISBN 978-1-5386-7283-9.
- ^ "RoboCup@Home"
- ^ "RoboCup@Work"
- ^ "RoboCupJunior – Creating a learning environment for today, fostering technological advancement for tomorrow". junior.robocup.org. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ^ "A New Goal for Open Source"
- ^ http://www.wantinews.com/news-8698440-2015-RoboCup-Whispering-Hefei.html
- ^ http://www.leipzig.de/news/news/robocup-wm-2016-kommt-nach-leipzig/
- ^ http://robocup2017.org/eng/
- ^ "Robot Soccer at Newton Research Labs". www.newtonlabs.com. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
- ^ "ICCA member press release: Thailand Robotics Week 2017 & RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017". Retrieved 2021-08-04.
- ^ "Statement from RoboCup Federation and Bordeaux RoboCup LOC: Corona Virus (COVID-19)". www.robocup.org. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
- ^ "Aryan | Home". aryanm.me. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ India, RoboCupJunior. "RoboCupJunior National Competition Winners 2017 in Bangalore - India". rcjindia.com. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
External links[]
Media related to RoboCup at Wikimedia Commons
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