Rules

These rules apply to the Human-to-Robot Handovers track. Follow News & Media for updates.

Teams

• Teams may include individuals from one or more institutions. Participants from academia and industry are equally welcome.
• Each person may participate in only one team.
• Each team may have no more than five members, including the team leader.
• Organisers may not participate in the competition.

Solution design and development

• A complete robotic system should be used.
• Teams are expected to bring and mount their own setup. Information about the availability of robotic arms at the competition site will be announced when confirmed.
• The task should be performed autonomously, without human input other than the volunteer handing over the container.
• Information disclosed about object categories will be announced when confirmed.
• Each volunteer is instructed to use the same hand throughout.

Allowed

• Calls to existing large language models.
• Multimodal sensing, including RGB and RGB-D cameras, microphones and tactile sensors.
• Inference using combinations of sensing modalities.

Not allowed

• Prior knowledge of the objects, such as existing 3D object models or reconstructed container shapes.
• Learning across executions of configurations.
• Teleoperation.

On-site phase: competition finals

To be confirmed.

1. All configurations are executed by the same volunteer from another team, using a natural grasp.
2. The volunteer is instructed to use the same hand throughout.
3. Each handover configuration can be executed only once, except in the case of hardware failures.
4. The object's initial location will be specified in the on-site procedure when confirmed.
5. Failed handover configurations receive zero points. Examples of failures include:
   • The robot cannot grasp the object during handover.
   • The robot cannot hold the container during delivery.
   • The object falls after the robot places it on the table.
   • The volunteer retreats during the handover because of unsafe robot behaviour.
   • The perception system fails to detect the object for two consecutive attempts.
6. System crashes, such as hardware failures, or components failing to start may be re-attempted.