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Humanoid robot in Lederhosen walking across Munich's Marienplatz towards the New Town Hall

We are building Munich's first humanoid football team.

A student team from TU Munich, on the way to the RoboCup World Championship in Nürnberg in June 2027, where autonomous humanoid robots play football against each other.

What is RoboCup?

Autonomous robots that play football

An international robotics competition that has been running since 1997. Its long-term goal is that by 2050 a team of autonomous humanoid robots can beat the reigning human football world champions.

We compete in the Humanoid League, where nobody holds a controller — every decision is generated and executed on the robot itself. That makes it a hard test of computer vision, motion planning and real-time decision-making.

Humanoid robots in blue and red kit around the ball on a green pitch at a RoboCup match
On the pitch:fully autonomous humanoid robots

Team activity

A few impressions from the team

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The road to the World Championship

From zero to the pitch in Nürnberg

Our Goal: the RoboCup World Championship in Nürnberg in June 2027.

  1. 01

    until Oct 2026

    Foundation

    Team, association structure, funding and robot procurement.

  2. 02

    Nov 2026 – Apr 2027

    Software build

    The autonomous stack, validated in simulation and then on the real robots.

  3. 03

    June 2027, the goal

    World Championship

    Competing in the Humanoid League in Nürnberg.

  4. 04

    Jul 2027 – …

    Hardware & scaling

    Building a hardware team and pushing the software further.

Munich skyline with the snow-capped Alps behind

The gap

Munich is one of Europe's leading robotics locations,and it still has no RoboCup team.That is what we are changing.

Teams already competingLeipzig · Dortmund · Hamburg · BerlinMunich is next

And we are building it in the best place for it in Germany: the network of TU Munich and its institutes, where robotics research already flourishes, with professors, researchers and engineers who back the project and challenge our results.

#1
TU Munich, first in GermanyQS World University Rankings 2026
50,000+
Students at TU Munich
10+
AI & robotics study programs

Latest news

Latest from the team

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Research partners

The universities, institutes and chairs that support the team — in Munich and abroad.

  • Technical University of Munich
  • AVS Lab, TU Munich
  • Chair of Applied Mechanics, TUM
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Tsinghua University
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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