Human-to-Robot Handovers
Teams
  • Teams can include individuals from one or more institutions, and individuals from academia and industry are equally welcome to participate.
  • One person can only participate in one team.
  • Each team cannot have more than 5 members (including the team leader).
  • The organizers are not allowed to participate in the competition.
  • Teams must register using the online form, or via email, and nominate a contact person. The registration includes, but is not limited to, a one to two-page description about the team, names of team members, their affiliations and contacts, who the team leader is, and a brief description of the team's technology, robotic systems, and sensor systems.

Solution design and development
  • A complete robotic system should be used.
  • Teams are expected to bring and mount their own setup, unless they declare they will use the available robotic arms.
  • The task should be performed autonomously without any human input.
  • The only prior knowledge available is the (high-level, unspecific) set of categories of the containers: cup, drinking glass, food box.
  • Each volunteer is instructed to use only one hand and always the same.
  • The target location to deliver the container must be inferred using perception from the initial location (not hard-coded) TBC.
Allowed
  • Calls to exisiting Large Language Models
  • Multimodality (RGB / RGB-D cameras / microphones / tactile sensors)
  • Inference using any combinations of the sensing modalities
NOT allowed
  • Prior knowledge of the objects (e.g. prior 3D object models, reconstructed shape of the containers in 3D)
  • Learning across executions of configurations
  • Teleoperation