Runway announces GWM-1, its first world model
On 11 December 2025, Runway announced GWM-1, a general world model that simulates environments in real time, released in Worlds, Avatars and Robotics variants and built on the company's Gen-4.5 model.
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Google DeepMind announces the real-time Genie 3 world model
On 5 August 2025 Google DeepMind announced Genie 3, a world model that turns text into navigable environments generated in real time at 24 frames per second and 720p, released as a limited research preview.
Tencent open-sources HunyuanWorld 1.0 for 3D world generation
On 26 July 2025 Tencent open-sourced HunyuanWorld 1.0, a model that builds explorable 3D worlds from text or images, with a technical report.
NVIDIA announces Isaac GR00T N1
On 18 March 2025 NVIDIA announced Isaac GR00T N1, a humanoid robot foundation model released immediately to robotics developers as the first of a family of customizable pretrained models, alongside open simulation tools.
NVIDIA launches the Cosmos world foundation model platform at CES
On 6 January 2025, at CES, NVIDIA launched Cosmos, a platform of open world foundation models for physical AI used to train robots and autonomous vehicles.
Google DeepMind unveils Genie 2 world model
Genie 2 is a Google DeepMind world model, announced on 4 December 2024, that turns a single image into a playable, action-controllable 3D world that people or AI agents can explore with a keyboard and mouse.
NVIDIA announces Project GR00T
In March 2024 NVIDIA announced Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots. A year later it released Isaac GR00T N1, which it presented as a fully customizable humanoid model.
The first official RoboCup games and conference
The first official RoboCup games and conference, held in 1997 as planned with IJCAI-97 in Nagoya, drew more than 40 real and simulated teams and over 5,000 spectators, and marked the first step toward robotic soccer players that could beat a human World Cup champion team.
Pre-RoboCup-96, the first robot soccer competition
Held in Osaka in November 1996 alongside IROS-96, Pre-RoboCup-96 was the first robot soccer competition aimed at research and education, with eight simulation-league teams and a middle-size robot demonstration; official RoboCup games followed in 1997.
IJCAI-95 announces the first Robot World Cup games
At IJCAI-95 in Montreal in August 1995, organizers announced the first Robot World Cup, to be held with IJCAI-97 in Nagoya, and set up Pre-RoboCup-96 plus the Soccer Server simulator.
The Robot World Cup Initiative is launched
In June 1993, researchers including Minoru Asada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Hiroaki Kitano proposed a robot soccer competition tentatively called the Robot J-League. International interest soon led to its renaming as the Robot World Cup Initiative, or RoboCup.
Robot soccer is proposed as an AI grand challenge
In 1992, Alan Mackworth's paper on seeing robots and a Tokyo workshop on AI grand challenges independently put forward robot soccer as a way to drive AI and robotics research.