RoboCup is an international research and education initiative. Its goal is to foster artificial intelligence and robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be examined and integrated.

The ultimate stated goal of the RoboCup project is "By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team".

Our research objectives in this project are twofold: first to apply intelligent techniques in the Legged Robot Soccer domain, and second to use that domain as a test bed to develop solutions for wider application in other research areas.

The NUbots Four Legged League RoboCup team showed a consistently high performance and achieved a third place three years in a row at RoboCup 2002 in Fukuoka, Japan, at RoboCup 2003 in Padua, Italy, as well as at RoboCup 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal.