In recent years research made good progress. Just a year ago, the robots were only able to distinguish their own goal from the opponent goal by the goal color (the goals were colored yellow and blue respectively). At this year's tournament all teams were able to play with net goals only. The ball is the only item that is still color-marked. The official FIFA winter ball is used - it is red.
Changes in the tournaments regulation like this will bring us eventually to the overall RoboCup goal:
By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team.
For more information, please check the league's official wiki:
http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Middle_Size_League |