RoboCup

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A robot attempts to kick the ball at RoboCup 2013.

RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition founded<ref>Template:Cite journal</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 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."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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RoboCup leaguesEdit

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Team rUNSWift competing in the Standard Platform League at RoboCup 2010 in Singapore
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NimbRo-OP2X<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> robot in Humanoid AdultSize game át RoboCup 2018 in Montreal.

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

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    • 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,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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    • 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

RoboCup editionsEdit

Number Year Host City Host Country Number of teams Number of countries Number of participants
1 RoboCup 1997 Nagoya Template:Flagu 38 11
2 RoboCup 1998 Paris Template:Flagu 63 19
3 RoboCup 1999 Stockholm Template:Flagu 85 23
4 RoboCup 2000 Melbourne Template:Flagu 110 19
5 RoboCup 2001 Seattle Template:Flagu 141 22
6 RoboCup 2002 Fukuoka Template:Flagu 197 29
7 RoboCup 2003 Padua Template:Flagu 238 35
8 RoboCup 2004 Lisbon Template:Flagu 345 37
9 RoboCup 2005 Osaka Template:Flagu 387 36
10 RoboCup 2006 Bremen {{#invoke:flag Germany}} 440 35
11 RoboCup 2007 Atlanta Template:Flagu 321 39 1,966
12 RoboCup 2008 Suzhou Template:PRC 373 35
13 RoboCup 2009 Graz {{#invoke:flag Austria}} 407 43 2,472
14 RoboCup 2010 Singapore Template:SGP 500 40 3,000
15 RoboCup 2011 Istanbul {{#invoke:flag Turkey}} 451 40 2,691
16 RoboCup 2012 Mexico City Template:Flagu 381 42 2,356
17 RoboCup 2013 Eindhoven {{#invoke:flag Netherlands}} 410 45 3,033
18 RoboCup 2014 João Pessoa Template:Flagu 358 45 2,900
19 RoboCup 2015 Hefei Template:PRC 346 43 2,032
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404 45 3,500
21 RoboCup 2017 Nagoya Template:JAP<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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500 50 2,520
22 RoboCup 2018 Montreal Template:Flagu 360 40 2,345
23 RoboCup 2019 Sydney Template:Flagu 335 40 2,200
24 RoboCup 2021 Virtual 317 43 2,129
25 RoboCup 2022 Bangkok Template:THA
26 RoboCup 2023 Bordeaux Template:Flagu
27 RoboCup 2024 Eindhoven {{#invoke:flag Netherlands}}
28 RoboCup 2025 Salvador Template:BRA
29 RoboCup 2026 Incheon Template:ROK<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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The formal RoboCup competition was preceded by the (often unacknowledged) first International Micro Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament (MIROSOT) held by KAIST in Taejon, Korea, in November 1996. This was won by an American team from Newton Labs, and the competition was shown on CNN.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

RoboCup was canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19. The planned host location of Bordeaux will host in 2023.

RoboCup Asia-Pacific editionsEdit

Year Host City Host Country Number of teams Number of countries Number of participants Website
RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017 Bangkok Template:THA 130+ <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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25 1000+ [1]
RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2018 Kish Island Template:IRN [2]
Dubai Template:ARE [3]
RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2019 Moscow Template:Flagu [4]
RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2020 Virtual [5]
RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 Aichi Prefecture / Virtual Template:JAP [6]
RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2025 Abu Dhabi Template:ARE [7]

European RoboCupJunior ChampionshipEdit

Year Host City Host Country Number of teams Number of countries Number of participants Website
European RoboCupJunior Championship 2018 Pescara Template:Flagu [7]
European RoboCupJunior Championship 2019 Hanover Template:Flagu
European RoboCupJunior Championship 2020 Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
European RoboCupJunior Championship 2021 Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
European RoboCupJunior Championship 2022 Guimarães Template:Flagu [8]

RoboCup local eventsEdit

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Warwick Mobile Robotics (from the University of Warwick) robot navigates red step fields, in the RoboCupRescue arena at the 2009 RoboCup German Open
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Brainstormers Tribots (from Universität Osnabrück) play RFC Stuttgart (from Universität Stuttgart) in the RoboCupSoccer Middle-Size League at the 2009 RoboCup German Open

2024Edit

  • German open in Kassel

2023Edit

  • German open

2021Edit

  • RoboCup Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
  • RoboCup Portugal Open, virtual
  • RoboCup Russia Open, Tomsk, Russia
  • RoboCup Brazil Open, virtual

2020Edit

  • RoboCup Japan Open 2020, virtual
  • RoboCup China Open 2020, virtual
  • RoboCup Brazil Open 2020, virtual

Events were cancelled due to COVID-19<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

2019Edit

  • RoboCup Portuguese Open 2019, Gondomar, Portugal
  • RoboCup Brazil Open 2019, Rio Grande, Brazil
  • RoboCup Asia Pacific 2019, Moscow, Russia
  • RoboCup German Open 2019, Magdeburg, Germany
  • RoboCup China Open 2019, Shaoxing, China

2018Edit

2017Edit

  • RoboCup Portugal Open 2017, Coimbra, Portugal
  • RoboCup Iran Open 2017, Tehran, Iran
  • RoboCup German Open 2017, Magdeburg, Germany
  • RoboCup Russia Open 2017, Tomsk, Russia
  • RoboCup US Open 2017, Miami, United States
  • RoboCup China Open 2017, Shaoxing, China

2016Edit

  • RoboCup Portugal Open 2016, Bragança, Portugal
  • RoboCup China Open 2016, Hefei, China
  • RoboCup European Open 2016, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2015Edit

  • RoboCup Portugal Open 2015, Vila Real, Portugal
  • RoboCup China Open 2015, Guiyang, China
  • RoboCup Iran Open 2015, Tehran, Iran
  • GermanOpen 2015, Magdeburg, Germany

2014Edit

  • RoboCup Portugal Open 2014, Espinho, Portugal
  • RoboCup China Open 2014, Hefei, China
  • RoboCup Iran Open 2014, Tehran, Iran
  • RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, Germany

2013Edit

  • RoboCup Portugal Open 2013, Lisbon, Portugal
  • RoboCup Iran Open 2013, Tehran, Iran
  • RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, Germany

2012Edit

2011Edit

  • RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, Germany
  • RoboCup Portugal Open, Lisbon, Portugal
  • RoboCup Iran Open 2011, Tehran, Iran

2010Edit

  • RoboCup Portugal Open, Leiria, Portugal
  • Iran Open 2010, Tehran, Iran
  • Latin America & Brazil Open 2010, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
  • RoboCup Mediterranean Open 2010, Rome, Italy
  • RoboCup German Open (unofficial all-European tournament), Magdeburg, Germany
  • AUT Cup 2010, Tehran, Iran

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

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External linksEdit

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