RoboCup

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RoboCup is an international founded in 1993. The aim is to develop robots with the intention of promoting research and education in the field of artificial intelligence. The name RoboCup is a contraction of the competition's full name, "Robot Soccer World Cup".

The official goal of the project[link]:

By mid-21st century, a team of fully humanoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, complying with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup.

Which is commonly abbreviated to:

By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team.

See also: Football (word) for a clarification of the terms "football" and "soccer". In the case of RoboCup, "soccer" refers to "association football", commonly abbreviated to "football" in European countries.

Contents

1 RoboCup competitions
2 Venues
3 See also
4 External links

4.1 2006 links

RoboCup competitions

The contest currently has three major divisions, each with a number of leagues:

RoboCupSoccer
* Simulation League
* Small Size League
* Middle Size League
* Four Legged League
* Humanoid League
RoboCupRescue
* Rescue Simulation League
* Rescue Robot League
RoboCupJunior
* Soccer Challenge
* Dance Challenge
* Rescue Challenge
* Genereal

RoboCup@Home

Starting in 2006, a new category called RoboCup@Home is being introduced to tackle problems related to the introduction of robots within society.

Venues

In past years, official international competitions have been held at the following locations:

1996 – Osaka, Japan – [Pre-RoboCup-97 event]
1997 – Nagoya, Japan – First official RoboCup competition
1998 – Paris, France
1999 – Stockholm, Sweden
2000 – Melbourne, Australia
2001 – Seattle, United States of America
2002 – Fukuoka, Japan
2003 – Padova, Italy
2004 – Lisbon, Portugal
2005 – Osaka, Japan
2006 – Bremen, Germany
2007 – Atlanta, United States of America

External links

[RoboCup]
* [RoboCup 2006 – Bremen, Germany]
[Federation of International Robot-soccer Association]
[RoboCup teams]
* [dInfoBots – University of Palermo]
* [Brainstormers Tribots – University of Osnabrueck]
[No feel for the ball], on the 2006 RoboCup in Bremen, at signandsight.com

2006 links

http://www.robocup2006.org/start?lang=en – Official website
http://www.robocup.zdf.de – Information from official sponsor ZDF
* http://www.heute.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/27/0,4070,3917691-1,00.html Live streams from the playing fields

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