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Bahia RT Leagues

Bahia RT participates in four main leagues, covering humanoid robot soccer and simulation to service robots and inspection drones. Select a league to see more details. On our YouTube channel (@BahiaRT) you will find competition footage, training, qualification materials, interviews, and more.

Humanoid Soccer League (HSL)

The Humanoid Soccer League (HSL) is RoboCup's humanoid robot soccer league. The long-term goal is that by around 2050, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots will be able to beat the human world champion team under official FIFA rules.

Robots are divided into size categories (small, medium, large) and must walk, run, kick, get up after falls and cooperate with each other to execute high-complexity plays.

Bahia RT is qualified to compete at RoboCup 2026 in the Humanoid Soccer League, leveraging its experience in humanoid control and 3D simulation to develop robust behaviors in the real world.

RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D League

The RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D League emerged as an evolution of 2D simulation to allow modeling of humanoid robots in three dimensions. Teams program agents that control complete virtual humanoids, including joints, balance and kicks.

The simulated environment allows running thousands of training matches, testing complex tactics and developing reinforcement learning techniques at scale, without physical hardware costs.

Bahia RT is one of the most awarded teams in the league, with several titles in competitions such as Brazilian Robotics Competition (CBR), RoboCup World Championship and RoboCup Brazil Open.

RoboCup@Home League

The RoboCup@Home League focuses on service and assistance robots in domestic environments. Robots are evaluated on tasks such as home navigation, object recognition, voice command understanding and social interaction with people.

Bahia RT competes in the league with the Bill robot, integrating ROS technologies, computer vision, navigation, manipulation and speech processing.

The league uses realistic scenarios – kitchens, rooms, corridors – with obstacles and people moving around. The goal is to bring domestic robotics closer to real everyday applications.

RoboCup Brazil Flying Robots League

The RoboCup Brazil Flying Robots League, or Petrobras Robotic Challenge, is a drone league focused on inspection and operation in a scenario representing pipelines, offshore platforms and onshore bases.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) must locate targets, follow safe trajectories, land on suspended platforms and interact with objects, all autonomously.

Bahia RT uses this league to research flight control, path planning, visual perception and embedded computing for inspection missions.