Organizer: International Committee https://robocup.org
RoboCup is a world robotics championship founded to share knowledge about robotics and accelerate development. The World Championship has 17 competitions in 5 categories. Age of participants: 14+, there are several leagues.
International competitions among robots, the first of which took place in 1996. The main goal was to create autonomous soccer robots to promote scientific research in the field of artificial intelligence. The official goal of the project is that by the middle of the 21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players should win a soccer match, following FIFA rules, against the winner of the human World Cup.
Main directions:
Within the framework of the competition, there are other types of competitions that are not related to football — robot shows, household robots, rescue robots, industrial robots, computer simulations, and others.
- RoboCupSoccer (The size of the fields is 69 m. and 1218 m. Categories – wheeled robots of small and standard size, anthropomorphic robots, humanoids, simulation league. The robots act completely autonomously, each of them makes a decision separately from the others, but they still have to play as part of the same team using communication tools.
- RoboCup @Home (Competitions among robots adapted to perform household tasks (pour water, serve a jar, open the door, etc.). Competitions are held on a field that mimics the interior of a life-size apartment (living room, kitchen, doors, furniture, dishes).
- RoboCup Rescue (This area aims to develop simulators to simulate search and rescue scenarios and create intelligent robots that will gain the abilities of key participants in search and rescue operations, as well as provide an objective assessment of robotic implementations in specific environments and facilitate collaboration between researchers. The robots identify victims within the framework of recreated disaster scenarios, ranging in complexity from following a straight line on a flat surface to overcoming obstacles on uneven terrain. Competitions of full-size rescue robots on a real training ground, as well as in a simulator)
- RoboCupJunior (school league – robofootball, rescue robots, OnStage theatrical performance on stage with robots).
Dates: March-April Kazakhstan stage, July- Europe, December Asia.
The purpose of the qualifying stage in Kazakhstan:
- Identification of teams that meet international requirements.
- Representing the interests of Kazakhstan on the basis of the quota officially received from the international organizing committee.
- Gain experience in performing international-level engineering and technical tasks, build up a knowledge base accessible to Kazakhstani schoolchildren.
- Development of a platform for the exchange of experience of young roboticists at the regional, national and international levels.
- Early professional orientation of the engineering and technical field.
The experience of participation of Kazakhstani Teams in previous years:
- Asia-Pacific Competitions in Dubai (UAE) 2018.
- International online competitions in 2021.
- International competitions in Bordeaux (France) 2023.
- Asia-Pacific Competition in Seoul (Korea) 2023, first place.
- International competitions in the city of Einhoven (the Netherlands), 2024.
- Asia-Pacific Competition in Abu Dhabi 2025, first place.