Challenge Your Programming Skills and bring prestige to your program and school!
RoboCup was birthed from the goal of creating a robotic soccer team that will be able to beat a human soccer team by the year 2050 – using preprogrammed logic. As the robots are constantly moving and reacting based off the coding, the environment is constantly changing in real time. As each team works on their own strategies to win the cup, there will always be an unknown play that the robot will need to maneuver.
Improve Team Coordination
Engineering and computer science fields, in the real-world, often team projects. With RoboCup, your students can work on their coordination with their team members and work through problems in their logic program. The robots are not centrally controlled, so each robot will need to be programmed in coordination with the other robots on their team.
Multi-purpose Robots
In addition to the hands-on application of programming and interpersonal skills, RoboCup is also a great opportunity for schools to participate in research projects! Since the tournament occurs in a standard, easily replicable environment, the creators of the RoboCup standard league encourages participants to publish research papers. Research topics vary from artificial intelligence to autonomous robotics, to human-interaction and machine learning. The possibilities are endless!
