RoboCup is an initiative aimed to promote the full integration of AI and robotics research. Following hte success of the first RoboCup-97 at Nagoya and the second RoboCup-98 in Paris, the Third Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, RoboCup-99, was held at Stockholm during July 27th and August 4th, 1999 in conjunction with the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99). There were four different leagues: the simulation league, the real robot small-size league, the real robot middle-size league, and the Sony legged robot league. The champion teams are CMUnited-99 (CMU, USA) for the simulation league, CS Sharif (Sharif University of Technology, Iran) for the middle-size league, The Big Red (Cornell University, USA) for the small-size league, and Les 3 Mousquetaires (Laboratorie de Robotique de Paris, France) for the legged robot league. The Scientific Challenge Award was given to three research groups: Information Science Institute, University of Southern CAlifornia (ISI/USC), USA, Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), Japan, and Chubu University, Japan for the development of automated and statistical game analysis systems and methodologies. RoboCup-2000, the fourth Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, will take place in Melbourne at the end of August, 2000.

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AI Magazine, Vol. 21, 3 (2000).

@Article{AIMag00-overview, title={Overview of RoboCup-99}, author={Silvia Coradeschi and Lars Karlsson and Peter Stone and Tucker Balch and Gerhard Kraetzschmar and Minoru Asada}, volume={21}, journal={AI Magazine}, number={3}, url="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab?AIMag00-overview", year={2000} }