RoboCup

06/29/2010 - Peter Stone's UT Austin Villa RoboCup team won third place in an international robotic soccer competition in Singapore. The team placed third out of 24 teams in the RoboCup standard platform league, which concentrates on writing software to control Nao mini-humaniod robots. The team also finished 2nd place in the challenge events which tested passing and dribbling skills as well as a demonstration of scientific advances. Earlier this spring, the team won the US Open for the second year in a row.

07/12/2004 - After a successful RoboCup US Open 2004, the UT Austin Villa took their team to RoboCup 2004.

07/12/2003 - Dr. Peter Stone, assistant professor of computer sciences, and his student team won first place in a computer-simulated soccer competition at RoboCup 2003 in Italy.

06/15/2003 - Assistant Professor Peter Stone and his team of students are headed to Padua, Italy, for the 2003 RoboCup.