The SocRob@Home project at ISR-Lisboa is bringing two teams to RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, South Korea, starting June 30. The LisTex team will introduce the BOOSTER T1 humanoid robot, known as Lola, to the @Home league for the first time, running multimodal large language models for robotic task planning under the FOMO-HODOR research project.
RoboCup 2026, the world's largest robotics and AI competition, opens June 30 at Songdo Convensia in Incheon and runs through July 6. The event is expected to draw more than 3,000 competitors and 15,000 visitors. For the first time in its 30-year history, RoboCup is being held in South Korea.
ISR-Lisboa Qualifies Two Teams
The Institute for Systems and Robotics at Técnico Lisboa qualified two teams under the SocRob@Home project. The headline entry is LisTex, which competes under the FOMO-HODOR research project. FOMO-HODOR investigates the use of multimodal large language models for robotic task planning and execution, translating high-level natural language instructions into sequences of physical actions a robot can perform in domestic environments.
LisTex will debut the BOOSTER T1 humanoid robot, nicknamed Lola, in the @Home league. This marks the first time ISR-Lisboa has entered a full humanoid platform in this competition category, moving beyond the wheeled service robots the group has traditionally fielded.
The BOOSTER T1
The BOOSTER T1 is a humanoid platform designed for service robotics research. For RoboCup 2026, Booster is providing a dedicated pool of eight additional T1 units to support competing teams, meaning teams bringing one robot can receive up to two extra units for their demonstrations. This support structure reflects the platform's positioning as a research-grade humanoid accessible to academic groups.
A New Humanoid Soccer League
RoboCup 2026 also debuts the unified Humanoid Soccer League (HSL), merging the former Humanoid League and Standard Platform League into a single competition. The HSL features fully autonomous humanoid robots competing in soccer matches and technical challenges across divisions defined by robot size and weight. Teams can field up to 4 robots in the Foundation configuration or up to 7 in the Advanced configuration.
The league serves as a research platform for advances in locomotion, perception, behavior control, and multi-robot coordination — all problems that transfer directly to service robotics and industrial applications.
Source: ISR-Lisboa | RoboCup 2026