What is RoboCup?

RoboCup is an international research and education initiative, attempting to foster Artificial Intelligence and Robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined, as well as being used for integrated project-oriented education.

For this purpose, RoboCup chose to use the soccer game as a primary domain, and organizes every year The Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences. Since 2000, the competitions include Search and Rescue robots as well. In order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game, various technologies must be incorporated, including: autonomous agents design principles, multi-agent collaboration, real-time planning and control, Robotics, and sensor-fusion. The RoboCup Federation proposed the ultimate goal of the RoboCup Initiative to be stated as follows:

Photos: Tech United Eindhoven (above), Dutch Robotics (below)

"By 2050, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official FIFA rules, against the winner of the most recent World Cup of Human Soccer."

 
See also:
www.robocup.org

News

See the latest news from RoboCup 2009, Graz in Austria:

 
Mission

The RoboCup Dutch Committee has the aim to promote the RoboCup initiative in the Netherlands.

The committee specific responsibilities are:

1. Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited.
2. Serve as a point of contact for local RoboCup events and RoboCup Opens.
3. Promote RoboCup within the Netherlands.
4. Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education within the Netherlands and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances through friendly competition.
5. Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in the Netherlands.
    
    

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