East Midlands Home Robotics Competition 2025
21 Jun 2025 – 10.30am – 5.00pm
Isaac Newton Building Atrium
Our robotics competition team LCASTOR is hosting a friendly inter-university competition against Sheffield Hallam University for autonomous service robots, where students demonstrate how service and assistive robot technology they have developed can be used for future personal domestic applications. A set of challenges will be used to evaluate the robots’ abilities and performance in a realistic, non-standardised home environment setting. It is similar to the international RoboCup@home initiative, but this is the first time such a competition has been organised locally at a UK level.
Competition Challenges
Robots will be scored on their ability to perform home assistance tasks such as:
- Navigate a simulated home environment autonomously
- Put away groceries
- Take and deliver drink orders
- Follow a person while carrying their bags
Robotic Demonstrations
There will be separate demos involving small robotics for the attendees to interact with, including:
- Trilobot robot football
- Plant detection with Trilobots
- Robot dogs
- AI-powered fruit detection from drawings
Schedule
| Time | Activity |
| 09:45 – 10:45 | Arena Open for All Teams |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Competition Attempt 1 |
| 12:30 | Poster Presentation |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | Competition Attempt 2 |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Competition Attempt 3 |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Results Announcement |
