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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 won the Humanoid Soccer League Best Innovation Award at RoboCup 2026 for its research on transferring knowledge and behaviors from simulation to real humanoid robots. In its league debut, the team reached the quarterfinals and finished 5th in the Humanoid Soccer League.

RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D League

The RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D League evolved from 2D simulation to enable the realistic modeling of humanoid robots in three-dimensional environments. Teams develop autonomous agents capable of controlling complete virtual humanoids, including locomotion, balance, coordination, ball control, and kicking behaviors.

The simulated environment makes it possible to run thousands of training matches, evaluate complex team strategies, and develop artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning techniques at scale, without the costs and physical limitations associated with real robotic hardware.

Bahia RT is one of the league's most successful teams, having won the Brazilian championship 11 times and earned several titles and awards in competitions such as the Brazilian Robotics Competition (CBR), RoboCup World Championship, and RoboCup Brazil Open.

Over the past four years, Bahia RT has consistently ranked among the top five teams in the world, reinforcing its position as an international reference in humanoid robot simulation, autonomous decision-making, multi-agent coordination, and intelligent soccer strategies.

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, former known as the Petrobras Robotic Challenge, focuses on autonomous aerial robotics for inspection and operational tasks in environments inspired by pipelines, offshore platforms, and onshore facilities.

During the competition, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) must autonomously detect targets, plan and follow safe flight paths, land on suspended platforms, and interact with objects in complex environments.

Through this league, Bahia RT advances its research in autonomous flight control, path planning, computer vision, embedded systems, and intelligent decision-making for robotic inspection missions.

At RoboCup 2025, held in Salvador, Brazil, Bahia RT won the RoboCup Brazil Flying Robots League world championship title, demonstrating its expertise in autonomous aerial robotics, intelligent control, perception, and multi-robot coordination.