The RoboCup is the world’s largest robotics competition around the theme of football.
In just over 10 years it has become an international event that brings together over 3,000 students to compete for a week with every kind of robot. The competition is divided into different leagues. The Standard Platform league is one of them, where all robots are strictly similar and only programming skills and strategies are rewarded.

In July 2007, Nao was nominated as the official platform for the standard league by the RoboCup Organizing Committee, and successor to Sony’s Aibo robot dog.

Nao’s first participation occurred in July 2008 at Suzhou in China, where 15 university teams from all over the world made full use of the physical and cognitive capacities of dozens of Nao (2 per team) in football matches.
In 2009, no less than 100 Nao competed at Graz in Austria, split between 24 teams (4 per team) participating in the 2009 RoboCup.