Did you know there’s a rather large community dedicated to making robots that can play soccer? Did you know they’re getting pretty good? RoboCup is an international robotics competition held ...

Robot soccer players compete during the RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2024 in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, Oct 26, 2024.

Founded by a group of robotics scientists, the Robot Soccer World Cup or RoboCup has ... "there's still a long way to go", says Peter Stone Playing football is, however, the main focus.

At the 19th Annual RoboCup World Championship in Anhui Province, China — robots compete in full fledged soccer matches. This year's winner of the miniature robot match was Australia's University ...

but they're up againstPlymouth's Black Ninja robots,who play football in theInternational Robot World Cup.The black robotshave been programmedso they can play by themselves,they don't need ...

First came Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Mini Cheetah Robot. Now, meet "DribbleBot," a four-legged, soccer-playing robot. Researchers from MIT's Improbable Artificial Intelligence ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Teams from universities and high schools around the world built robots to compete in the RoboCup Iran Open, a soccer tournament for robots of different sizes ...