RoboCup Middle Size League

Final match of RoboCup 2013 in Eindhoven, second goal by Tech United.[1]
Robots of team MRL and team Water.
Final match of RoboCup 2013 in Eindhoven. Photo by Bart van Overbeeke.
Brainstormers Tribots (from Universität Osnabrück) play RFC Stuttgart (from Universität Stuttgart) during the RoboCup German Open of 2009.
Final match of RoboCup MSL in 2006.

As one of the founding leagues of the international RoboCup initiative, the RoboCup Middle Size League (MSL) robot soccer competition has been organised from 1997 onwards.[2] On an indoor soccer field, with goals of reduced size, teams of five fully autonomous soccer playing robots compete against one another. No human intervention is allowed during a match, except to take robots on or from the field. Although limitations with respect to maximum size and weight are in place, teams are completely free to design both hardware and software.

  1. ^ Original place of publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMos2WG1OmY (46m1s)
  2. ^ Asada, M., Veloso, M., Kraetzschmar, G. K., & Kitano, H. (1999). RoboCup: Today and Tomorrow. Experimental Robotics Six, 6, 369.