RoboCup 2024 - Humanoid League - FINAL

In the Humanoid League (HL), autonomous robots with a human-like body and human-like senses play soccer against each other.

The Humanoid League promotes research for making scientific progresses in hardware, perception, decision-making and execution processes of autonomous robots that can interact with human in a socially acceptable way. In particular, robots in HL are custom designed and assembled by teams, they have human-proportionate body (two legs, two arms, and one head, which are attached to a trunk) and all actions of the robots must be kinematically equivalent to humanoid motions. Sensors used in HL have an equivalent to human senses, in similar position: mono or stereo camera in the robot's head; touch sensors, force sensors, and temperature sensors; gyro, accelerometer; wireless communication between teams and a referee system; microphone, speakers, whistle recognition.

Teams play according to FIFA game rules, including throw in the ball from side line, goalie diving, kicking the ball from different angles and penalty behaviours. The development of such robotic behaviours will create more accepted and trustworthy robots that can have effective human-robot interactions, and as a consequence, better and more long-term human-robot collaboration and cooperation.