RoboCup is an international initiative aiming at fostering AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem: a soccer game.

RoboCup is a multi-agent, dynamic, real-time, nondeterministic, and adversarial environment, where a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined:

- design principles of autonomous agents
- multi-agent collaboration
- real-time reasoning
- sensor processing and fusion
- learning

Objective:     Pushing the State-Of-The-Art of Robotics and AI research
 

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

Computer chess challenge

               Deep Blue beated Garry Kasparov using the official rule (1997)
 
 

	Chess	RoboCup
Environment	Static	Dynamic
Knowledge	Complete	Incomplete
State configuration	Finite	Infinite
Control	Centralized	Distributed
Time	Turn taking	Real-time
Data representation	Symbolic	Numeric

 

RoboCup Leagues

                Simulator League
                Small Size Robot League (F-180)
                Middle Size Robot League (F-2000)
                Sony Legged Robot League
                Humanoid League
 

Past editions:

                1997 Nagoya, Japan
                1998 Paris, France
                1999 Stockholm, Sweden ( 40 sim. / 18 small / 20 middle / 7 legged = 85 )

Next editions:

                2000 Melbourne, Australia
                2001 Seattle, USA
                2002 Japan

1999 Winners