Robot Hardware and Software

• Mobile robotics;
• Humanoid robotics;
• Sensors and actuators;
• Embedded and mobile devices;
• Robot construction and new materials;
• Robot system integration;
• Robot software architectures;
• Robot programming environments and languages;
• Real-time and concurrent programming;
• Robot simulators;
• Sim2real learning.

Perception and Action

• 3D perception;
• Distributed sensor integration;
• Sensor noise filtering;
• Real-time image processing and pattern recognition;
• Motion and sensor models;
• Sensory-motor control;
• Robot kinematics and dynamics;
• High-dimensional motion control.

Robot Cognition and Learning

• World modelling and knowledge representation;
• Learning from demonstration and imitation;
• Localisation, navigation, and mapping
• Planning and reasoning;
• Decision making under uncertainty;
• Neural systems and deep learning;
• Complex motor skill acquisition;
• Reinforcement learning and optimisation;
• Motion and sensor model learning.

Human-Robot Interaction

• Robot social intelligence;
• Fluency of interaction;
• Speech synthesis and natural language generation;
• Natural language recognition;
• Explainable robot behaviours;
• Emotion recognition and reaction;
• Understanding human intent and behaviour;
• Safety, security and dependability;
• Enabling humans to predict robot behaviour.

Multi-Robot Systems

• Team coordination methods;
• Communication protocols;
• Learning and adaptive systems;
• Teamwork and heterogeneous agents;
• Dynamic resource allocation;
• Adjustable autonomy.

Education and Edutainment

• Robotics and artificial intelligence education;
• Educational robotics;
• Robot kits and programming tools;
• Robotic entertainment.

Applications and Benchmarking

• Search and rescue robots;
• Robot surveillance service and social robots;
• Robots at home, at work and in public spaces;
• Robots in the real world;
• Performance metrics;
• Human-robot interaction.

Posters on Benchmarking of RoboCup competitions

• Search and rescue robots;
• Robot surveillance service and social robots;
• Robots at home, at work and in public spaces;
• Robots in the real world;
• Performance metrics;
• Human-robot interaction.