Competition task development for response robot innovation in World Robot Summit

Abstract

Japanese government plans to host a robot competition, World Robot Summit(WRS), in 2020 aiming to promote robot innovation. WRS involves three categories; (1)industrial, (2)service, and (3)disaster robotics categories. In this paper, the tasks of the disaster robotics category of WRS are introduced, and the consideration of robot innovation promotion with the WRS tasks is carried out.