About 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. In 2006, the area of Service robots was introduced as a new
league.
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: "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."