This year, RoboCup will be held in Bordeaux, from 4-10 July. The event will see around 2500 participants, from 45 different countries 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 6-9 July. You can find out more about the different leagues at these links:

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

Symposium

The RoboCup symposium will take place on 10 July. The programme can be found here.

There will be three keynote talks:

• Cynthia Breazeal, Social Robots: Reflections and Predictions of Our Future Relationship with Personal Robots
• Ben Moran and Guy Lever, Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Laurence Devillers, Socio-affective robots: ethical issues

Find out more at the event website.