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UT Austin VillaHumanoid Soccer

UT Austin Villa is the RoboCup team of The University of Texas at Austin, led by Prof. Peter Stone and Prof. Joydeep Biswas. Named after the English football club Aston Villa, the team has competed in RoboCup since 2003 — first in the Four-Legged League, later in the Standard Platform and Simulation Leagues. Today the team competes in the Humanoid Soccer League with the Booster T1 humanoid robot, supported by Booster Robotics.

Events

competition record, newest first

RoboCup 2026 · Incheon, Korea

Songdo Convensia · June 30 – July 6, 2026

Humanoid Soccer League · Large Robot Division4th Place of 22 Teams

The first edition of the unified Humanoid Soccer League, merging the former Humanoid League and Standard Platform League into a single humanoid competition. UT Austin Villa reached the semi-finals, finishing 4th of 22 teams in the Large Robot Division.

StageOpponentScore
Seeding · Round 1CAU Mountain&Sea0 – 1L
Seeding · Round 2RO:BIT9 – 0W
Seeding · Round 3DUT Future5 – 0W
Seeding · Round 4I-Teen1 – 1D
Play-InDUT Future6 – 3W
Quarter-FinalHTWK Robots3 – 2W
Semi-FinalCAU Mountain&Sea1 – 3L
Third-Place MatchWater1 – 2L

Scores listed UT Austin Villa first · Champion: Tsinghua Hephaestus · Full results

The 2026 UT Austin Villa team in Texas Robotics shirts, holding a Longhorn flag beside two Booster T1 robots on an indoor soccer field
The 2026 squad with the Booster T1s at Songdo Convensia

Team Members

Dongmyeong Lee · Zifan Xu · Alex Lu · Hao Fu · Akaash Reddy · Shawn Sebastian

Publications

2026

For the group's full publication record, see the UT Austin Villa papers page.

Media

RoboCup 2026 Qualification Video Booster T1 — dribbling, kicking, and full-game autonomy
RoboCup 2025 Qualification Video Booster T1 — autonomous perception, walking, and kicking

In the Press

Resources

robocup_demo Booster Robotics' open-source RoboCup demo stack for the T1 — perception, locomotion, and game play reference code. github.com/BoosterRobotics booster_robotics_sdk Official SDK for the Booster T1 humanoid robot. github.com/BoosterRobotics

UT Austin Villa

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