Presentation of the best paper award at the RoboCup 2025 symposium.

The heading of a soccer ball—an intrinsic and routine feature of play in the world's most popular field sport—causes long-term damage to areas of the brain associated with learning, according to a new ...

Imagine you’re at a soccer game, and just as the opening whistle blows, the power cuts out. The stadium goes black. Eventually someone rigs up a single spotlight and the game goes on, but the light ...

Artificial intelligence has learned to play soccer. By learning from decades’ worth of computer simulations, an AI took digital humanoids from flailing tots to proficient players. Researchers at the ...

With AI-powered humanoids now playing 3-on-3 matches, China kicks off its boldest push yet to dominate robotics through sports. reading time 3 minutes China has officially launched its first humanoid ...