This weekend marked the culmination of the league competitions at RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, South Korea. The event concluded with the determination of champions across three categories: small, middle, and large humanoid divisions. Congratulations to the following teams who emerged victorious in each division:
Small Division
- Invic, Wuhan University, China
- Hamburg Bit-Bots, Universität Hamburg, Germany
- GeoHBots, School of Artificial Intelligence, China University of Geosciences, China
Middle Division
- B-Human, Universität Bremen and German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany
- HTWK Robots, Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- Rhoban, University of Bordeaux, France
Large Division
- Tsinghua Hephaestus, Tsinghua University, China
- CAU Mountain&Sea, China Agricultural University, China
- Water, Beijing Information Science & Technology University, China
Fans of the tournament can catch highlights from the middle division semi-final where HTWK faced off against Rhoban.
The highly anticipated final in the middle division featured HTWK competing against B-Human:
Apart from the thrilling matches, five league-wide awards were presented to recognize outstanding achievements:
- Best Customized Humanoid Award: HERoEHS (ALICE 4th version)
- Best Humanoid Software Award: B-Human (Game Controller)
- Open Research Challenge: Ruhrbot Devils (AI Camera Platform for Embedded 2D/3D Game Analysis in RoboCup HSL)
- Best Innovation Award: Bahia Robotics Team
- Best Referee Award: Anastasia Prisacaru (Berlin United)
Hear insights from Team Hephaestus of Tsinghua University, the champions of the large division:
While the competitions have concluded, RoboCup 2026 continues with a symposium that gathers researchers and practitioners from around the globe to share and discuss groundbreaking work in robotics and artificial intelligence. More information is available here.
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