RoboCup is a soccer tournament played by fully autonomous robots. There are several different categories including a humanoid category and tournaments are played in multiple countries all around the world each year. The Robocup first began in the 1990s to help promote research in the field of robotics.
The following video shows some clips from a game between robots in the kid size humanoid category.
This next video is robots in the midsize category (non-humanoid). This one is a little long but you really only need to watch the first few minutes to get the idea.
A more specific long range goal of the project is described on the RoboCup website. It is to have a team of humanoid robots that can defeat the winner of the most recent world cup. As you can see from the videos, technology has a long ways to go before that’s going to happen.
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