Robocup

Yep, I spelled it right, it's Robocup and not Robocop.
It's an international robotics competion with an interesting goal:

By mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, complying with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup.

It's a pretty interesting goal and scary as well. Soon, they can think for themselves! At first they'll play football, soon they may conquer the whole world! :)

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCup