Robocup

Robocup is a yearly robotics event organized by the RoboCup Federation and aims to promote robotics worldwide.

The RoboCup event consists of competitions, demonstrations and educational games and is becoming increasingly popular. At this moment it is the largest international robotics event in the world.

RoboCup was founded in 1997 and was first held in Nagoya, Japan, just shortly after Garry Kasparov was defeated by "Deep Blue", the supercomputer from IBM.

In the years that followed Robocup established several robot competitions to stimulate robotics technology and to inspire people to get involved in robot development:

• RoboCup Soccer where teams from universities from all over the world play robot soccer. Their aim is to build a robot that can compete with human soccer players in the year 2050.

  These Soccer games are divided into different sub leagues:

  • Robot Soccer Simulation (2D and 3D)
  • Small Size League
  • Middle Size League
  • Humanoid League
  • Standard Platform League
• RoboCup Rescue, where robots compete whith eachother performing tasks in simulated disaster areas. These are divided into the actual Rescue League and the Recue Simulation League
• RoboCup@Home, where robots are tested on how they perform tasks and solve problems in the set-up of a daily household and
• RoboCup Junior which aims to educate young children and introduce them to the world of robotics.
• RoboParty is a an educational project that aims at teaching children teh basics of how to build mobile autonomous robots.