RoboCup 2011 Istanbul Turkey July 4-10, 2011

The RobotCup 2011 will be held in Istanbul, Turkey July 4-10,

The 15th annual RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction with RoboCup 2010. The Symposium represents the core meeting for presentation and discussion of scientific contributions to a variety of research areas related to all RoboCup divisions (RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCup@Home, and RoboCupJunior). Its scope encompasses, but is not restricted to, research and educational activities within the fields of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

The First RoboCup comptetition was held August 23 - 29, 1997 at IJCAI-97 - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, in Nagoya, Japan. 38 teams from 11 countries participated and over 5,000 spectators attended. In 2010 RoboCup was held in Singapore and attracted 500 teams from 40 countries and over 3000 participants. The graph below illustrates the successful development of RoboCup, the most ambitions robot competition in the world.


The ultimate goal of the RoboCup Initiative is "a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, comply with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup."