A New RoboCup@Home Challenge

The RoboCup@Home is an initiative to test if robots could
be useful in the challenging environment of your home. This means that
the robots have to be able to navigate through a cluttered environment
and in addition also have to interact with your family. To do that, the
robot should understand which objects could are present in your home,
find them and manipulate them. Quite a challenge, where the RoboCup
community works on since 2005 (and should be finished in 2050). To
accelerate the developments in the league, it could be very beneficial
to exchange algorithms and software based on a Standard Platform, as
demonstrated in other RoboCup leagues. This year the RoboCup@Home
will be extended with a Standard Platform competition, with its own
Social Challenge.