Editing AIBO (section)

===RoboCup Four-Legged League===
[[File:Aibos playing football at Robocup 2005.jpg|thumb|250px|AIBO robots playing in the 9th RoboCup in Osaka (2005)]]
The AIBO has seen much use as an inexpensive platform for [[artificial intelligence]] education and research because it integrates a computer, [[Computer vision|vision system]], and articulators in a package vastly cheaper than conventional research robots. One focal point for that development has been the Robocup Leagues.

The Four-Legged League was the initial name for the [[RoboCup Standard Platform League]], a robot soccer league in which all teams compete with identical robots. The robots operate fully autonomously, with no external control by humans nor computers. The specific AIBO version changed over time: ERS-110s (1999–2000), ERS-210 (2001–2002), ERS-210A SuperCore (2003), ERS-7 (2004–2008). The replacement and current standard platform is the humanoid [[Nao (robot)|NAO]] by Aldebaran Robotics.

Sony provided AIBOs support and sponsorship to universities around the world to participate in the [[RoboCup]] autonomous [[soccer]] [[:Category: Robotics competitions|competition]]  Four-Legged Robot Soccer League. Competing teams would [[Computer program|program]] a team of AIBO robots to play games of autonomous robot soccer against other competing teams. The Four-Legged League ran from 1999 to 2008, although in the final year, many big-name universities did not compete as they had moved to the new [[Nao (robot)|NAO]] platform. The University of New South Wales<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~robocup/2010site/ |title=rUNSWift 2010 |publisher=Cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au |access-date=2013-03-10}}</ref> was the most successful team in the League, making the final six times and winning three times.