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Robot Soccer is a robot sport, where robot machines compete against each other in a variation of the game of Association Football (soccer). In robot soccer, each team is fully autonomous - once the game starts the only input from any human is from the referee.
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The main robot soccer competition is the RoboCup, which is short for "Robot Soccer World Cup". The international tournament, organized by the Federation of International Robot-soccer Association (FIRA), has been held annually since 1997.
Robot Soccer does not fit in the definition of a real sport as it is not a human physical activity, but is included on this list of sports due to similarities to football.
Similar Sports
- Association Football (soccer)
- Combat Robot — involves custom-built remote control machines fighting each other.
Related Pages
- More about Robot Sports — sporting competitions involve robot machines battling other robots, often replicating the rules and equipment of sports
- About football (general)
- Football Decoder — what is called football around the world?
- what is a sport?
- questionable sports
- Complete list of sports
- The Encyclopedia of Sports
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