About Robocup

RoboCup is an international robotics competition founded in 1993. The aim is to develop autonomous robots with the intention of promoting research and education in the field of artificial intelligence.

RoboCup chose to use soccer game as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and industries. Soccer has many aspects that next generation technologies need to embrace. For example, team work, real-time perception and decision, and high-level of motion control.

The official goal of Robocup is:

By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team.

Team Dutch Robotics competes in the Robocup Soccer AdultSize Humanoid league. In the AdultSize Humanoid League, autonomous robots of over 1.30 meter, with a human-like body plan and human-like sensors play soccer against each other. The robots also have to compete in several Technical Challenges: the robots will walk trough an obstacle course, will be dribbling around poles and have to cross the soccer field as fast as possible.

Dynamic walking, running, kicking the ball while maintaining balance, visual perception of the ball, self-localization, team play are among the many research issues investigated in the Humanoid League.