Tehran – Tehran is holding the 19th edition of the Robocup Iranopen competition, starting on Saturday and ending on Tuesday.
The four-day event brought together over 400 teams, including over 2,000 participants from Iran and other countries, competed in a variety of areas of robotics and artificial intelligence.
Robocup is not limited to soccer. The mission of the Robocup Rescue Simulation League is to promote research and development to manage natural disasters such as earthquakes and provide opportunities to develop smart rescue systems.
Iranopen 2025 consists 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.
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.
Recent results
The 7-17-year-old Iranian student ranked second in seven countries at Kazakhstan Roboland 2025, held in Karaganda City from March 27-29.
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.
The Iranian student, ages 7-17, ranked second in 31 countries at the Robotchallenge 2024, held from August 9-11 in Beijing, China.
For the second year in a row, the Iranian team was able to rank second in the Technical Report. Two U12 Iranian teams have won silver and bronze medals in the Innovation League. China was ranked first.
The 24 Iranian robot teams who participated in the International Federation of Robosport Associations (FIRA) 2024 Roboworld Cup held in San Luis, Brazil managed to win 17 awards.
The 29th edition of the FIRA Robotics and Artificial Intelligence World Conference took place from August 5th to 9th.
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