RoboCup is an international contest for autonomous robots, intended to promote research and education in AI.

The goal of the project:"- By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team. - "

Currently has three major categories, the robot soccer contest, the robot rescue contest, and the RoboCupJunior for educational initiative for the young generation.

For the soccer category, there are many different leagues from simulation, to full-size humanoid.

External links

• RoboCup http://www.robocup.org
  • RoboCup German Open http://robocup-german-open.de/
  • RoboCup Japan Open http://www.robocup.or.jp/
  • RoboCup US Open http://www.robocup-us.org/
• RoboCupRescue http://www.rescuesystem.org/robocuprescue/
  • Thailand Rescue Robot Championship 2004 http://www.trs.or.th/html/rescuerobot2004.html
• RoboCupJunior http://www.robocupjunior.org

• *Federation of International Robot-soccer Association (FIRA) http://www.fira.net/ - note: another robot soccer contest, but not RoboCup

• RoboCup Teams http://dmoz.org/Computers/Robotics/Competitions/RoboCup/Teams/
  • Chulalongkorn University http://www.eng.chula.ac.th/~eic/robocup/robocup.html (TH) - Plasma Z, 2003 Thailand champions
  • Carnegie Mellon University http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~robosoccer/small/ (US) CMDragons (Small-size League)
  • Carnegie Mellon University http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~robosoccer/legged/ (US) CMPack, 2002 World champions (Legged League)
  • Cornell University http://robocup.mae.cornell.edu/ (US) - BigRed, 2003 World champions (Small-size League)
  • Free University of Berlin http://www.fu-fighters.de/ (DE) - FU-Fighters, 2004 World champions (Small-size League)
  • Fraunhofer AiS http://www.ais.fraunhofer.de/BE/robocup/ (DE)
  • IU Bremen http://robotics.faculty.iu-bremen.de/robocup/ (DE) (rescue)
  • Politecnico di Milano http://robocup.elet.polimi.it/ (IT)
  • Philips http://www.cft.philips.com/robocup/
  • RWTH Aachen http://robocup.rwth-aachen.de/ (DE) - The AllemaniACs
  • Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University http://it.siit.tu.ac.th/robocup/ (TH)
  • Swinburne University http://www.ses.swin.edu.au/robocup/ (AU)
  • TU Darmstadt http://robocup.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ (DE) - Dribbling Dackels (Four-Legged League)
  • TU Wien http://www.roboterfussball.at/ (AT)
  • University of Stuttgart (CoPS) http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/bv/projekte/cops/ (3rd Place RoboCup2004, Middle Size League)
  • University of Freiburg http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~robocup/ (DE)
  • Uni Koblenz http://www.robolog.org/ (DE) - RoboLog Koblenz (Simulation League)
  • University of Bremen (DE): B-Smart(Smallsize) http://b-smart.informatik.uni-bremen.de - Bremen Byters (four-legged) http://www.bremenbyters.de
  • University of Pennsylvania http://www.cis.upenn.edu/robocup/ (US) - 2003 World runners up (Four-Legged League)
  • University of Queensland http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~dball/roboroos/ (AU) - RoboRoos, 2003 World runners up
  • University of Tübingen http://www-ra.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/forschung/robocup/ (DE) - 2003 Technical Challenge Award (Middle-Size League)
  • UNSW http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~robocup/ (AU) - rUNSWift, 2003 World champions (Four-Legged League)