Tehran – An Iranian team named Timrad at Khatam University took first place in the Robocup 2025 Rescue Simulation League, leveraging advanced scientific and technical expertise in artificial intelligence and robotics. The competition took place in Salvador, Brazil from July 15th to 21st.
According to the IRNA, the Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan, and the International Institute of Information Institute of Information Technology – ranked 2nd and 3rd respectively.
The five-day competition attracted 2,000 participants from 40 countries. The event hosted six leagues, including Robocup Soccer, Robocup Rescue, Robocup Junior, Robocup Industrial, Robocup @Home, and Robocup Flying Robots.
The Robocup Rescue Simulation League is an educational and research project focused on disaster response. Its central mission is to advance the field of disaster response through research and development.
The Robocup Rescue Simulation League has two purposes: First, the aim is to develop simulators that form the infrastructure of simulation systems and emulate the realistic phenomena that dominates disasters. Second, we aim to develop intelligent agents and robots that can be given the capabilities of main actors in disaster response scenarios.
Robocup is an international initiative covering the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, and its ultimate goal is to develop a team of humanoid robots that can defeat the official Human World soccer champion team by 2050.
The initiative is a platform for testing technologies such as real-time decision-making, multi-agent collaboration, sensor data processing, and navigation in complex environments.
The event first began in 1997 and was inspired by the computer chess player’s victory over then-world chess champion Gary Kasparov.
Robocup (originally known as the Robot World Cup Initiative) is an international research and education initiative. This is an attempt to promote research in AI and intelligent robots by providing standard problems that can be integrated and investigated across a wide range of technologies, and standard problems that can be used for integrated, project-oriented education.
Iranian participants at Robocup 2025 were the winners of the 19th edition of the Robocup Iranopen competition held from April 19th to 22nd.
Iranopen 2025 consisted of 25 specialized leagues, including soccer simulation, rescue and rescue, flying robots, technical inventions, and artificial intelligence. Also, for the first time, certain artificial intelligence leagues were added to the competition, with the number of teams increasing by 40-50% compared to last year.
Recent results
Iranian students ages 7-17 placed second in the seven countries of Kazakhstan Roboland, held in Karaganda city from March 27 to 29.
The event brought in over 750 young inventors from seven countries, Kazinform’s news agency reports.
The International Festival competed in 23 categories, attracting 362 teams from Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Over 2,000 children participated in the exclusion trial, and over 400 teams competed in the qualifying round to reach the Roboland 2025 final.
Roundtable Discussion Digital Transformation in Education: Trends and prospects were held as part of the festival to focus on digitalising the education process and share best practices on STEM education development.
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