Since the beginning of the Humanoid League in 2002, the Best Humanoid Award has been given every year to the team with the best humanoid robot. From 2002 to 2016 Louis Vuitton has sponsored the “Louis Vuitton Humanoid Cup” for RoboCup, an international research and educational initiative for artificial intelligence and robotics with a focus on soccer-playing robots. Louis Vuitton has created a championship trophy for this program in order to, by aiming to promote development of robots capable of competing against a human team by the year 2050, encourage technological innovation.
Louis Vuitton Humanoid Cup
From 2002 to 2016 the “Louis Vuitton Humanoid Cup” was presented to the champion team of the Humanoid League as a crystal globe crafted by Baccarat, the world’s leading crystal maker, presented in a custom-made Louis Vuitton Monogram canvas hard case with a red lining. The award winning team was entitled to hold the Cup for a year until the next winner had been determined at the following RoboCup World Championship event.
Winners of the Annual Best Humanoid Award
| 2019 (Sydney) | NimbRo AdultSize Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, Germany | robot NimbRo-OP2 |
| 2018 (Montréal) | NimbRo AdultSize Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, Germany | robot NimbRo-OP2 |
| 2017 (Nagoya) | Rhoban Football Club University of Bordeaux, France | robot Sigmaban |
| 2016 (Leipzig) | Baset Adult-Size Baset Pazhuh Tehran cooperation, Iran | robot Baset Adult-Size |
| 2015 (Hefei) | THORwIn , University of Pennsylvania and University of California, USA | robot THOR-OP |
| 2014 (João Pessoa) | CIT Brains KidSize, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan | robot Dynamo Accelite |
| 2013 (Eindhoven) | JoiTech AdultSize, Osaka Univ./Osaka Inst. of Tech., Japan | robot Tichno-RN |
| 2012 (Mexico City) | NimbRo TeenSize, University of Bonn, Germany | robot Dynaped |
| 2011 (Istanbul) | Team CHARLI, Virginia Tech, USA | robot CHARLI |
| 2010 (Singapore) | NimbRo TeenSize, University of Bonn, Germany | robot Dynaped |
| 2009 (Graz) | Darmstadt Dribblers, TU Darmstadt, Germany | robot Bruno |
| 2008 (Suzhou) | Team Osaka, Vstone Co. Ltd., Japan | robot Vstone TichonoR |
| 2007 (Atlanta) | Team Osaka, Vstone Co. Ltd., Japan | robot VisiON 4G |
| 2006 (Bremen) | Team Osaka, Osaka University & Osaka Companies, Japan | robot VisiON TRYZ |
| 2005 (Osaka) | Team Osaka, Osaka University & Osaka Companies, Japan | robot VisiON NEXTA |
| 2004 (Lisbon) | Team Osaka, Osaka University & Osaka Companies, Japan | robot VisiON |
| 2003 (Padua) | HITS Dream, Honda International Technical School, Japan | robot FirStep |
| 2002 (Fukuoka/Busan) | Gifu Industries’ Association, Japan | robot Nagara |