RoboCup
Annual robotics competition
A robot attempts to kick the ball at RoboCup 2013.
RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition founded[ 1] 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 ."[ 2]
RoboCup leagues
Team rUNSWift competing in the Standard Platform League at RoboCup 2010 in Singapore
NimbRo -OP2X[ 3] robot in Humanoid AdultSize game át RoboCup 2018 in Montreal.RoboCup 2019 Humanoid AdultSize winner NimbRo The contest currently has six major domains of competition, each with a number of leagues and sub-leagues. These include:
RoboCup Soccer
RoboCup Rescue League
RoboCup@Home,[ 4] 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,[ 5] which debuted in 2016, "targets the use of robots in work-related scenarios"
RoboCup Junior [ 6]
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.[ 7]
RoboCup editions
Number
Year
Host City
Host Country
Number of teams
Number of countries
Number of participants
1
RoboCup 1997
Nagoya
Japan
38
11
2
RoboCup 1998
Paris
France
63
19
3
RoboCup 1999
Stockholm
Sweden
85
23
4
RoboCup 2000
Melbourne
Australia
110
19
5
RoboCup 2001
Seattle
United States
141
22
6
RoboCup 2002
Fukuoka
Japan
197
29
7
RoboCup 2003
Padua
Italy
238
35
8
RoboCup 2004
Lisbon
Portugal
345
37
9
RoboCup 2005
Osaka
Japan
387
36
10
RoboCup 2006
Bremen
Germany
440
35
11
RoboCup 2007
Atlanta
United States
321
39
1,966
12
RoboCup 2008
Suzhou
People's Republic of China
373
35
13
RoboCup 2009
Graz
Austria
407
43
2,472
14
RoboCup 2010
Singapore
Singapore
500
40
3,000
15
RoboCup 2011
Istanbul
Turkey
451
40
2,691
16
RoboCup 2012
Mexico City
Mexico
381
42
2,356
17
RoboCup 2013
Eindhoven
Netherlands
410
45
3,033
18
RoboCup 2014
João Pessoa
Brazil
358
45
2,900
19
RoboCup 2015
Hefei
People's Republic of China
346
43
2,032
20
RoboCup 2016
Leipzig
Germany [ 8]
404
45
3,500
21
RoboCup 2017
Nagoya
Japan [ 9]
500
50
2,520
22
RoboCup 2018
Montreal
Canada
360
40
2,345
23
RoboCup 2019
Sydney
Australia
335
40
2,200
24
RoboCup 2021
Virtual
317
43
2,129
25
RoboCup 2022
Bangkok
Thailand
26
RoboCup 2023
Bordeaux
France
27
RoboCup 2024
Eindhoven
Netherlands
28
RoboCup 2025
Salvador
Brazil
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 .[ 10]
RoboCup was canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19. The planned host location of Bordeaux will host in 2023.
RoboCup Asia-Pacific editions
European RoboCupJunior Championship
RoboCup local events
Warwick Mobile Robotics (from the University of Warwick ) robot navigates red step fields, in the RoboCupRescue arena at the 2009 RoboCup German Open
Brainstormers Tribots (from Universität Osnabrück ) play RFC Stuttgart (from Universität Stuttgart ) in the RoboCupSoccer Middle-Size League at the 2009 RoboCup German Open
2024
•German open in Kassel
2023
•German open
2021
RoboCup Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan , Kazakhstan
RoboCup Portugal Open, virtual
RoboCup Russia Open, Tomsk , Russia
RoboCup Brazil Open, virtual
2020
RoboCup Japan Open 2020, virtual
RoboCup China Open 2020, virtual
RoboCup Brazil Open 2020, virtual
Events were cancelled due to COVID-19 [ 12]
2019
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
2018
RoboCup Portugal Open 2018, Torres Vedras , Portugal
RoboCup Asia Pacific 2018, Kish Island , Iran
RoboCup Iran Open 2018, Tehran , Iran
RoboCup UAE 2018, Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates
RoboCup German Open 2018, Magdeburg , Germany
2017
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
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
RoboCup Portugal Open 2012, Guimarães , Portugal
RoboCup Dutch Open, Eindhoven , Netherlands
RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg , Germany
RoboCup Iran Open, Tehran , Iran
RoboCup SSL North American Open, Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada
2011
2010
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 also
References
^ "RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative". RoboCup. 1995. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.49.7511 .
^ "RoboCup: Objective" . RoboCup. 1998. Retrieved 2014-01-26 .
^ Ficht, Grzegorz; Farazi, Hafez; Brandenburger, Andre; Rodriguez, Diego; Pavlichenko, Dmytro; Allgeuer, Philipp; Hosseini, Mojtaba; Behnke, Sven (2018). "NimbRo-OP2X: Adult-Sized Open-Source 3D Printed Humanoid Robot". 2018 IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids) . Beijing, China: IEEE. pp. 1–9. arXiv :1810.08395 . Bibcode :2018arXiv181008395F . doi :10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2018.8625038 . ISBN 978-1-5386-7283-9 . S2CID 53044123 .
^ "RoboCup@Home – Where the best domestic service robots test themselves" . RoboCup@Home . Robocup Federation, Inc. Retrieved 4 October 2022 .
^ "Welcome to RoboCup@Work!" . RoboCup@Work . Robocup Federation, Inc. Retrieved 4 October 2022 .
^ "RoboCupJunior – Creating a learning environment for today, fostering technological advancement for tomorrow" . junior.robocup.org . Retrieved 2018-04-16 .
^ "A New Goal for Open Source" . Red Hat Blog . Red Hat, Inc. 20 May 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2022 .
^ "RoboCup WM 2016 kommt nach Leipzig" . 22 July 2014.
^ "RoboCup2017 Nagoya Japan(ロボカップ2017)" . Archived from the original on 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2017-04-03 .
^ "Robot Soccer at Newton Research Labs" . www.newtonlabs.com . Retrieved 2019-12-06 .
^ "ICCA member press release: Thailand Robotics Week 2017 & RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017" . Retrieved 2021-08-04 .
^ "Statement from RoboCup Federation and Bordeaux RoboCup LOC: Corona Virus (COVID-19)" . www.robocup.org . Retrieved 2020-07-01 .
External links
Media related to RoboCup at Wikimedia Commons
Official website
RoboCup@Home league, aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications.
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