“The ultimate goal of Robocup is to develop humanoid soccer-playing robots that can beat the FIFA world champion team,” General Chair of Robocup 2016, Gerhard Kraetzschmar, tells Digital Trends. “We ...

In the RoboCup Four-Legged division, four dogs per team compete on a 3-by-5 meter field. One goal is yellow; one is blue. The dogs must be programmed to know which goal to aim for, and which one to ...

BRocks, a team from Bogazici University in Istanbul, at the 2013 RoboCup. RoboCup2013 Queen Máxima of the Netherlands watches at a match in the Soccer Middle Size League during her visit to RoboCup ...

Robots play football during the 13th international RoboCup (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) photocredit: Getty Images A world cup for robotic football teams isn't on most ...

While not in use, the RoboCup stays back and out of the way. When it's time to drink, the user either passes a hand over a hard-wired infrared proximity sensor or presses a button. Doing so activates ...

Robots compete in a soccermatch on Sunday as part of the 19th RoboCup in Hefei, the capital of Anhui province. The five-day annual contest includes soccermatches and contests for robots programmed for ...

PHILADELPHIA — When robots first started playing soccer, it was a challenge for them just to see the ball. And to stay upright. But the machines participating in this month’s international RoboCup ...

Here’s an ironclad prediction about this Sunday's World Cup final: Whoever scores the winning goal, the foot or head that sends it into the net, whether German or Argentine, will be made of flesh and ...

While World Cup protests continue throughout Brazil, another international soccer event is attracting nothing but awe. More than a thousand soccer-playing robots from 40 countries took to the pitch ...

If you can't wait until 2014 to see your favorite team compete in Brazil in the FIFA World Cup – well then this June, you can check out the Robot Soccer World Cup in Mexico. The "RoboCup" is an ...

More than 200 organizations are preparing to bring their teams of robots to RoboCup 2003 next month in Padua, Italy, an event where researchers test out the latest artificial intelligence techniques ...

The whistle blows and the beautiful game begins, but this is no ordinary football match - it is a training session for a team of robots, which on 19 July will compete at the RoboCup World ...