The RoboCup 2026 Humanoid Soccer Competition took place in Incheon, South Korea.
Useful Links for Teams
Field Reservations: You can make reservations for fields in this Google Sheet. You are allowed to reserve both halves of a field for 15 minutes at a time, or one half of a field for two time slots.
Robot Inspections: You will be required to participate in a robot inspection with your robots on the afternoon of the 1st of July. Please book an appointment on this link.
Robot Inspection Volunteers: Your team might be required to perform a robot inspection on other teams’ robots. Volunteers for this can sign up here.
Important Dates
Submission system open: January 1st, 2026Pre-application deadline: January 10th, 2026Submission deadline: January 31st, 2026Team review period: February 3rd – 20th, 2026Announcement of qualified teams: March 2nd, 2026Early Registration: until May 4thRegular Registration: May 5th – Jun 2Late Registration: Jun 3 – Jun 16 (additional members only – no new teams)- RoboCup 2026: June 30 – July 6
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Best Custom Humanoid Robot Voting
Dear Teams, We know that developing your own robots is a challenging endeavor that not many teams attempt. With the Best Custom Humanoid Robot Award, we want to honor this work and support the development of custom robots in our new league. In total, four of the best-performing teams competing with custom-built robots were selected…
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OC/TC Voting
Dear teams, voting is now open for the TC and OC and will remain open until 10am on July 4. Only one vote is permitted per team and should be completed by your team leader. You may vote for up to 3 nominees. If you cast a vote before 10pm on July 3, you must…
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Reopened OC/TC Nominations
Dear teams, We are re-opening TC/OC nominations. If you would like to nominate or self-nominate for either committee, you have until 8pm tonight to do so. New nominees will be given a brief chance to introduce themselves at the team leader meeting tonight. Form Importantly, nominees must declare any potential conflicts of interest, including but…
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GameController and message limit
Dear HSL Team,This announcement is in relation to Packet transmission limits.We are reminding teams that GameController reports the number of packets remaining in the team’s message budget. It is expected that teams use this information to respect the packet limit. GameController acts as a referee in this matter. Teams are notified that if they exceed…
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Open Research Challenge Voting
Please rank the following contributions from the one that best fulfills the requirements to the one that fulfills them the least. The Borda count method will be used to calculate the final ranking. Only vote if you have listened to most presentations and vote only on those you listened. Vote will end on Saturday 4th…
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Open Research Challenge
The Open Research Challenge will take place on Field J at 4:00 PM. Presenting teams must evaluate other teams based on the official rules, with a limit of one evaluation per team. Non-presenting teams are also encouraged to watch and evaluate, but please only fill out the evaluation form if you actively attend the presentations.
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Schedule
The schedule for RoboCup 2026 has now been published here. Due to using Swiss system, we are not able to fill all games out yet and have to update the schedule after each round. Therefore, you should make sure to regularly check if there is any new information on it.
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Field bookings
HSL Field Bookings are live here. Remember that your team is limited to 2 future bookings at a time. As soon as that time passes, you can book additional slots.
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Committee nominations
Dear HSL Teams, TLDR: This is a call for nominations to the HSL organising committee (OC) and technical committee (TC). Without the work that these committees do, RoboCup HSL would not be possible. We ask that all teams nominate candidates for the committees. This year, we are particularly focused on strong representation from as many…