Editing RoboCup (section)

{{Short description|Annual robotics competition}}
[[File:13-06-28-robocup-eindhoven-024.jpg|thumb|A robot attempts to kick the ball at RoboCup 2013.]]
'''RoboCup''' is an annual international [[robotics competition]] founded<ref>{{cite journal |citeseerx = 10.1.1.49.7511 |title=RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative |publisher=RoboCup |date=1995}}</ref> in 1996 by a group of university professors (including [[Hiroaki Kitano]], [[Manuela M. Veloso]], [[Itsuki Noda]] and [[Minoru Asada]]). The aim of the competition 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 World Cup Initiative" (based on the [[FIFA World Cup]]), but there are many other areas of competition such as "RoboCupRescue", "RoboCup@Home" and "RoboCupJunior". Claude Sammut is the current president of RoboCup, and has been since 2019.

The official goal of the project is:
:"By the middle of the 21st century, a team of fully [[wikt:autonomy|autonomous]] humanoid [[robot soccer]] players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official rules of [[FIFA]], against the winner of the most recent [[FIFA World Cup|World Cup]]."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.robocup.org/objective/ |title=RoboCup: Objective |year=1998 |publisher=RoboCup |access-date=2014-01-26}}</ref>