RuleBook for RoboCup @Home 2026

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Rulebook
Score sheets

The current version for 2026 is draft

Changelog

RoboCup@Home teams and team members are welcome to post GitHub issues for clarifications, questions etc.

Improvements are also welcome in the form of pull requests (see guidelines).

FAQ

See the Frequently Asked Questions here.

Or ask us via Telegram: https://t.me/RoboCupAtHome

Question, issues, and contribution Guidelines

• When asking questions please follow these Guidelines.
• Guidelines for setting up an issue are here. Open an issue for:
  • Typos, misspellings, and broken references.
  • The rules are unclear or poorly specified.
  • One rule contradicts another.
  • The RuleBook contains outdated information
  • Scoresheets are cryptic of hard to read.
  • Compilation and build errors.
• To contribute directly with the rulebook (Pull Requests), please read the conventions in the Contribution Guidelines and in the Workflow Guidelines

RoboCup

RoboCup is an international joint project to promote AI, robotics, and related fields. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing standard problems where a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. More information can be found at http://www.robocup.org/.

RoboCup@Home

The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual compe- tition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots abilities and performance in a realistic non-standardized home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Human-Robot- Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviors, Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration. It is collocated with the RoboCup symposium.

Contributing

The RoboCup @Home Organizing Committee is always looking for volunteers to assist in the events and willing to help to maintain the sites. Volunteers can help in tasks such as organizing and categorizing publications, team videos, memories, scores, press, and writing examples and extended rule explanations. Other projects such as developing utilities for the competition and tools for referees are also welcome. If you would like to collaborate, write to any of the members of the Organizing Committee.

Contributions and improvements to the rulebook are always welcome in the form of pull requests.

Building

The easiest way is to utilize the docker.io/texlive/texlive:TL2022-historic image to build everything.

For convenience, you should execute build.sh to make the PDFs with a container runtime. (This requires either docker or podman to be installed)

Recorded data

Data is recorded from the robots during the competition. It is available through the following links:

European Open 2016

• All challenges

Leipzig 2016 - Finals - Following & Guding - GPSR - Manipulation & Object Recognition - Navigation - Open Challenge - Restaurant - Speech Recognition

More information

• @Home Website: http://athome.robocup.org/
  • @Home Website (backup): http://robocupathome.org/
• Telegram group for Q&A and rules discussion: https://t.me/RoboCupAtHome
• Whatsapp group: Please join the Telegram group
• RoboCup 2019 Website https://2019.robocup.org
• General mailing list
• Youtube channel
• Facebook Page
• RoboCup @Home Wiki
• Forum
• Gitter.im chat