What’s coming up at #RoboCup2025?

This year, RoboCup will be held in Salvador, Brazil, from 15–21 July. The event will see around 3000 participants, from 300-400 different teams take part in competitions, training sessions, and a symposium. You can see the schedule for the week here.

The leagues and their competitions

The league competitions will take place on 17-20 July. You can find out more about the different leagues at these links:

• RoboCupSoccer
  • Humanoid
  • Standard platform
  • Middle size
  • Small size
  • Simulation
• RoboCupRescue
  • Robot rescue
  • Rescue simulation
• RoboCup@Home
  • This league comprises: Open platform, Domestic standard platform, and Social standard platform
• RoboCupIndustrial
  • RoboCup@Work
  • Logistics
  • Arm Challenge
• RoboCupJunior
  • Soccer
  • Onstage
  • Rescue

Demo

This year will see a new demo at the event – the Flying Robots Demo. Find out more here.

Symposium

The RoboCup symposium will take place on 21 July. The programme can be found here.

There will be one keynote talk:

• Iolanda Leite, Robots (Still) Need Humans in the Loop

Find out more at the event website.

We are publishing a series of interviews with representatives from the various RoboCup Leagues. You can find all of the content so far here.

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.