ICRA 2023: Results

METRICS HEART-MET Physically Assistive Robot Challenge

The ICRA 2023 METRICS HEART-MET Physically Assistive Robot Challenge took place at ExCeL London from May 29th to June 1st, 2023.

In this challenge, an assistive robot is tasked with fetching an item for a person in a home. The robot approaches two people and asks what it can fetch for them. After understanding what they say through speech and/or gesture recognition, it fetches the item and and hands it over to them. During the run, the volunteers score the robot on its social acceptability, for example, how appropriately it interrupts them, distance it keeps from people, communicating intentions, not surprising people while approaching, etc. The overall score is the average of the technical and social acceptance score.

Scores

Place	Team	Technical Score	Social Acceptance Score	Final Score
1	RoboNotts	1.167	14.667	7.917
2	National Robotarium	1.000	1.000	1.000
2	b-it-bots	1.333	0.667	1.000

Support

The competition was sponsored by JAKA Robotics and supported by Toyota - up to two teams can apply to use a Toyota HSR robot onsite at the competition.

Follow up competition

Participating in our competition at ICRA gives teams the chance to prepare for the ERL Smart City competition, which takes place in Milton Keynes in September 2023. The competition the same task in the episode titled "Socially Acceptable Item Delivery". More details can be found here: https://eu-robotics.net/erl-smart-city-competition-in-2023/