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TC SPOTLIGHT

RoboCup: A Treasure Trove of
Rich Diversity for Research Issues
and Interdisciplinary Connections
By Minoru Asada, Peter Stone, Manuela Veloso, Daniel Lee, and Daniele Nardi

R

oboCup has been a vehicle
for  promoting robotics and
artificial intelligence (AI) re-
search by oﬀering a publicly
appealing but formidable challenge.
One eﬀective way to promote science
and engineering research is to set a
challenging long-term goal. RoboCup
was founded with such a goal: "By 2050,
have a team of soccer robots d e fe at
the team of World Cup champions."
Our challenging goal has been
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expanded to include teams of rescue
robots, those that service humans at
home or in manufacturing tasks, and
robotics soccer, rescue, and dancing
motion challenges for educating
children. Building teams of robots for
environments with great uncertainty
(e.g., soccer, rescue) will have signif-
icant social and economic impact,
and reaching the specific soccer 2050
goal will certainly be considered a
major achievement for the fields of AI
and robotics.
Figure 1 shows how we have ex-
panded the competition in terms of

Leagues/Years
1997 1998 1999
RoboCupSoccer
Simulation (Sim) Official
Small-Size League (SSL) Official
Middle-Size League (MSL) Official
Four Legged
Exhibit. Official
SPL
Humanoid
RoboCupRescue
Simulation (Rescue-Sim)
Real Robot (Rescue-Rob)
Rapidly Manufactured Robot
RoboCupJunior
Exhibit.
Soccer
Rescue
OnStage
RoboCup at home (@HOME)
Open Platform
Domestic SPL
Social SPL
RoboCup Industrial
RoboCup Work (AtWork)
Logistics (Festo)

2000 2001 2002 ~2006

2007

leagues since 1997. We started the soc-
cer domain with three leagues, then
added Rescue, Junior, @Home, and
Industry. The participating teams
increased rapidly during the first 10
years, but, due to space and time limita-
tions, the number of teams in the inter-
national global event is now limited to
approximately 350-450 (see Figure 2).
The main purpose of the Technical
Committee (TC)-RoboCup is to share
the challenges pursued by RoboCup
researchers with the IEEE Robotics and
Automation Society (RAS). To accom-
plish this, the TC-RoboCup functions

2008

2009 ~2012 ~2016 2017 ~2019

Stop
Exhibit. Official

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Official
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SPL: Standard Platform League; Exhibit.: Exhibition
Figure 1. The expansion of RoboCup leagues. (Note: The skipped years had no changes.)

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