RoboCup

Also known as Robot Soccer World Cup

thumb|A robot attempts to kick the ball at RoboCup 2013. RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition founded 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.

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RoboCup leagues
RoboCup editions
RoboCup Asia-Pacific editions
European RoboCupJunior Championship
RoboCup local events
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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".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RoboCup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.