This year, RoboCup took place in Incheon, South Korea, from 2-6 July. The event saw teams take part in competitions, training sessions, and a symposium. Take a look at what the participants got up to in our round up from social media. RoboCup 2026 officially begins today! A post shared by RoboCup Federation (@robocup.official)

This weekend saw the finale of the league competitions at RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, South Korea, with the winners in the small, middle, and large humanoid divisions decided. You can watch the action from one of the semi-finals in the middle division, which saw HTWK take on Rhoban. Although the competitions have drawn to a close, RoboCup 2026 continues today with a symposium, which brings together researchers and practitioners from around the world to present and discuss innovative research in robotics and artificial intelligence. You can find out more here . Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for Robohub and AIhub.

The second day's play at RoboCup 2026 has drawn to a close with another bumper set of matches. Teams have come from far and wide to take part in the humanoid soccer competition this year, with 17 different countries represented. China is the most represented country, boasting 15 teams across the three divisions. Other countries taking part are geographically widespread, ranging from Colombia to Malaysia, from Germany to Australia. In advance of the competition, all applying teams provided a video, team description paper, and information about the robots and software that they use.

The second day's play at RoboCup 2026 has drawn to a close with another bumper set of matches. Teams have come from far and wide to take part in the humanoid soccer competition this year, with 17 different countries represented. China is the most represented country, boasting 15 teams across the three divisions. Other countries taking part are geographically widespread, ranging from Colombia to Malaysia, from Germany to Australia. In advance of the competition, all applying teams provided a video, team description paper, and information about the robots and software that they use.

This short video from RoboCup gives a flavour of the day's happenings, which also featured the opening ceremony.

This year, RoboCup will be held in Incheon, South Korea, from 2-6 July. The event will see teams take part in competitions, training sessions, and a symposium. It's an exciting time for RoboCup, as there have been some updates to the leagues and competition format . Most prominently, the soccer leagues will have a primary focus on humanoid robots. A workshop focused on sharing projects, experiences, and innovations in educational robotics.

The Future of AI Research report, published in March 2025, aims to clearly identify the trajectory of AI research in a structured way. The report was led by outgoing AAAI President Francesca Rossi and covers 17 different AI topics . Members of the report team, and other selected AI practitioners, are taking part in a series of video panel discussions covering selected chapters from the report. In the fifth discussion in the collection, the three panellists tackle the topic of AI agents. How multi-agent systems evolved from rule-based systems to complex cooperative frameworks built on generative AI, and what is really different in the modern notion of an agentic AI system.

The AAMAS 2026 best paper awards were presented at the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, which took place from 25-29 May 2025 in Paphos, Cyprus. Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for Robohub and AIhub. Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for Robohub and AIhub. In this special live recording at the Great Exhibition Road Festival in London, Claire chatted to George Mylonas (Imperial College London), Antonia Tzemanaki (University of Bristol) and Tom Vercauteren (King's College London) about robotics and AI in medicine and healthcare. Researchers are developing AI models that could one day enable vision prosthetics able to restore meaningful, object-level sight for the blind.

You can read the roadmap in full here . Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for Robohub and AIhub. Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for Robohub and AIhub.

The AAMAS 2026 best paper awards were presented at the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, which took place from 25-29 May 2025 in Paphos, Cyprus. Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub. Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub. Eleanor Drage speaks with Tara Merk about how community-owned data centers could transform digital ownership and challenge the dominance of Big Tech. We find out more about multi-agent research for the allocation of scarce societal resources.