I'm a Junior/senior student at Va Tech when I'm not mentoring 2016 in Jersey. I recently found out that the robotics lab at Tech just finished qualifying for Robocup. It's going to be the first humanoid from America to compete there, I've seen it walking around and it's a very neat little bot.
Check out the article at Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/16/d...up-competitor/
and see more at
www.me.vt.edu/romela
www.me.vt.edu/robocup