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RoboCup

Annual robotics competition

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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".

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."

RoboCup leagues

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

  • RoboCup Soccer
    • Standard Platform League (formerly Four Legged League)
    • Small Size League
    • Middle Size League
    • Simulation League
      • 2D Soccer Simulation
      • 3D Soccer Simulation
    • Humanoid League
  • RoboCup Rescue League
    • Rescue Robot League
    • Rescue Simulation League
    • Rapidly Manufactured Robot Challenge (RMRC) for participants up to the age of 19.
  • RoboCup@Home, 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, which debuted in 2016, "targets the use of robots in work-related scenarios"
  • RoboCup Junior
    • Soccer League
    • OnStage (formerly Dance) League
    • Rescue League
    • Rescue CoSpace League

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

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