From Chinese RoboCup Committee
RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1997. The aim 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 stages of the competition such as "RoboCupRescue", "RoboCup@Home" and "RoboCupJunior".
The official goal of the project:
- By mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous 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.
RoboCup Leagues
The contest currently has four major competition domains, each with a number of leagues and subleagues:
- RoboCup Soccer
- Standard Platform League (formerly Four Legged League)
- Small Size League
- Middle Size League
- Simulation League
- 2D Soccer Simulation
- 3D Soccer Simulation | Soccer Simulation 3D League Homepage
- Mixed Reality Competition
"2010 RoboCup Competitions" "Mixed Reality League"
- Humanoid League Humanoid League homepage
- RoboCup Rescue Rescue Leagues Homepage
- Rescue Robot League
- Rescue Simulation League
- RoboCup@Home, "RoboCup@Home" which debuted in 2006, and focuses on the introduction of autonomous robots to human society.
- RoboCupJunior
- Soccer Challenge
- Dance Challenge
- Rescue Challenge
- General
Each team is fully autonomous in all RoboCup leagues. Once the game starts, the only input from any human is from the referee. "A New Goal for Open Source"
Venues
Venue | Number of teams | Number of countries | Number of participants |
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RoboCup 2013 Eindhoven - The Netherlands | |||
RoboCup 2012 Mexico City - Mexico | 381 | 42 | 2,356 |
RoboCup 2011 Istanbul - Turkey | 451 | 40 | 2,691 |
RoboCup 2010 Singapore | 500 | 40 | 3,000 |
RoboCup 2009 Graz - Austria | 407 | 43 | 2,472 |
RoboCup 2008 Suzhou - China | 373See Official RoboCup site | 35 | |
RoboCup 2007 Atlanta - USA | 321See RoboCup 2007 site | 39See RoboCup 2007 site | 1,966 |
RoboCup 2006 Bremen - Germany | 440 | 35 | |
RoboCup 2004 Lisbon - Portugal | 345 | 37 | |
RoboCup 2003 Padua - Italy | 238 | 35 | |
RoboCup 2002 Fukuoka - Japan | |||
RoboCup 2001 Seattle - USA | 141 | 22 | |
RoboCup 2000 Melbourne - Australia | 110 | 19 | |
RoboCup 1999 Stockholm - Sweden | 85 | 23 | |
RoboCup 1998 Paris - France | 63 | 19 | |
RoboCup 1997 Nagoya - Japan | 38 | 11 |