China's home-service robots win world competition  

中國服務機器人“可佳”獲世界杯冠軍

Chinese home-service robots Kejia at the competition. [Photo: ustc.edu.cn]

Hefei (CNS) -- Chinese home-service robots Kejia, made by the University of Science and Technology of China, was crowned champion in the worldwide RoboCup@home 2014 competition.

As part of RoboCup, RoboCup@home is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots, where a set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots' abilities and performance in a realistic non-standardized home environment setting.

China's home-service robots Kejia got the highest score in five of nine tests, one of which was the only perfect score in the history of the competition. In the final contest, two robots cooperated and lifted the cap off a bottle, winning the highest mark again.

Holland's Eindhoven University of Technology won second place, and Germany's University of Bonn third place.

The competition attracted more than 500 teams from 45 countries and runs July 19-25 in Brazil.