PhyRC: Physical Robotic Caregiving Challenge: ICRA 2025 Competition

"Millions of people worldwide require physical assistance with daily tasks, and with an aging population, this number is rising. Caregiving robots have the potential to increase care recipient independence and reduce caregiver workload. Despite considerable recent progress in the caregiving robotics field, it remains challenging to assess the state of the art, compare different approaches, […]

AI Olympics With RealAIGym: Towards Global Policies for Swing up in the Real World

"As artificial intelligence gains new capabilities, it becomes important to evaluate it on real-world tasks. While software such as ChatGPT has recently revolutionized certain areas of AI, athletic intelligence seems to still be elusive in the AI community. To have better robots in the future which can perform a wide variety of dynamic tasks in […]

The BARN Challenge 2025

Designing autonomous robot navigation systems has been a topic of interest to the robotics community for decades. Indeed, many existing navigation systems allow robots to move from one point to another in a collision-free manner, which may create the impression that navigation is a solved problem. However, autonomous mobile robots still struggle in many scenarios, […]