Sponsors & partners
Put your name on Munich's first humanoid team
RoboCup is an established international stage for robotics and AI: more than 250 teams from around 40 countries, over 1,500 competitors, up to 150,000 spectators on site and coverage around the world. We are looking for partners who want to be part of it.
RoboCup by the numbers
The stage you would be on
The world championship is the largest robotics and AI competition there is, and in 2027 it comes to Nürnberg — a two-hour drive from our lab.
- 250+
- teams at the 2025 world championship, 112 of them major-league research teams
- ~40
- countries represented on site
- 1,500+
- competitors, plus referees, committees and press
- 150k
- spectators expected across the week, with a worldwide livestream
Organiser figures for RoboCup 2025 in Salvador, Brazil.
- Since
- 1997
- League
- Humanoid League, AdultSize
- Mission
- Beat the human world champions by 2050
The coverage is already there
Your logo is shown in front of the outlets that report on the tournament.
It pays off in many ways
Media attention
Your logo is shown on our robots, our team clothing and this website as well as the internationally broadcast RoboCup and throughout the year at trade fairs, university events and public demonstrations.
Access to robotics talent
A direct line to engineering students in Munich, for internships, working-student roles and graduate hires.
- 50k+
- students at TU Munich
- 10+
- AI & robotics programs
- #1
- in Germany, QS ranking
A real testing field
Put your motors, sensors or LiDAR into real competition use, and set challenges at our hackathons.
Network access
Access to RoboTUM with more than 150 members and to the ESRA network with ETH, EPFL, TU Delft and RWTH. Contributions are tax-deductible through NEXT Prototypes e.V.
Different ways to work together
Support financially
Support us once or regularly, and receive a tax-deductible donation receipt through the non-profit NEXT Prototypes e.V.
Partner with us
Technology testing, joint projects, hackathon challenges and direct access to our engineers.
Paul Völker
Co-founder and team lead, TU Munich
Happy to talk about sponsoring, technology partnerships and what a collaboration could look like. We answer personally, usually within a few days.