RoboCup

RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition founded[1] 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.

The official goal of the project is: The contest currently has six major domains of competition, each with a number of leagues and sub-leagues.

[7] The formal RoboCup competition was preceded by the (often unacknowledged) first International Micro Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament (MIROSOT) held by KAIST in Taejon, Korea, in November 1996.

This was won by an American team from Newton Labs, and the competition was shown on CNN.