A team of students from NUST – National University of Science and Technology has qualified to participate in RoboCup 2015 with their artificially intelligent robots in the Standard Platform League Competition in Hefei – China.
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Pakistani human football team may not participate in FIFA world cup sooner or later, but a team of students from NUST Pakistan has qualified with their robots to participate in this year’s RoboCup – an international robotics soccer competition.
RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition proposed in 1995 and founded in 1997. The aim is to promote robotics and AI research, by offering a publicly appealing, but formidable challenge.
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Last year’s RoboCup was held in Brazil right after the FIFA world cup, while the ultimate goal of this yearly competition is to build a robot team that can beat the human world cup winners by 2050. However these robots still have a way to go.
The name RoboCup is a short form of the full name, “Robot Soccer World Cup”. There are other leagues of the competition such as RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Home, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup Junior.
Last but not the least, we wish our team of NUST to play well and show their real talent to the tech world.
