August 7 and 8
BICC

IJCAI is pleased to announce the launch of a new important robotics initiative, the First Robot Competition and Exhibition in 2013. Robotics is becoming increasingly important in Artificial Intelligence and poised to have a profound impact on society.

The IJCAI-13 Robot Competition and Exhibition is open to all robots. It is designed to raise awareness of robotics in the AI community and to identify robotics problems that AI methods, tools and techniques can help to address.

Four prizes will be offered for real-time robot demonstrations in the following categories: physical skills (e.g. manipulation and motion), social skills (e.g. human-robot interaction, multi-robot collaboration, theory of mind),

service tasks (e.g. general-purpose service, cleaning the house, cocktail waiter, security guard) and open (e.g. incredibly awesome applications). The key criteria are: innovation - what new value or potential impact does the demonstrated capability bring; significance - quality of new AI/Robotics research questions it addresses or exposes; technical quality - how well is the demonstration accomplished; understandability - quality of the demonstration presentation.

Each demonstration will be performed in the Robot Exhibition Arena and required to be completed in less than 10 minutes with synchronous presentation/commendatory, followed by a 10 minute Q&A.

Competitions will be held on August 7 and 8. All conference attendees are encouraged to watch the demonstra- tions. The winner will be announced during the Closing Event on August 9 at 16:50, Hall #2.