RoboCup

An annual international robotics competition centered on robot soccer, held since 1997.

RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition held since 1997, organized by the RoboCup Federation, with its first edition in Nagoya, Japan. Its long-term goal is that by the middle of this century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots will beat that year's human World Cup champions under official FIFA rules. The competition centers on robot soccer, divided into humanoid, standard-platform, small-size, mid-size, and simulation leagues, among others, with additional rescue, home-service (@Home), industrial, and youth events. It's a public proving ground for bipedal walking, multi-robot coordination, and real-time perception and decision-making, and a platform many locomotion-control and multi-agent research groups build on.

ExampleAt RoboCup 2025 in Brazil, Tsinghua University's Huoshen team won the humanoid adult league using the Booster T1 platform from Booster Robotics; in the standard-platform league, every team competes using the same NAO robot, so only the software differs.

Related

RoboLeague · Booster Robotics T1 · SoftBank Robotics NAO · OP3 Soccer (DeepMind) · Multi-robot Collaboration · RoboMaster / ROBOCON University Robotics Competitions

Sources

RoboCup - Wikipedia
RoboCup Federation official site

As of

2026-09