2019 – TDP – UTS Unleashed! – RoboCup@Home – Social Standard Platform

UTS Unleashed! were the only Australian team that qualified for 2017 and 2018 RoboCup@Home Social SPL. It won the Human-Robot Interface Award in 2017 and took second place in the competition in both 2017 and 2018. UTS Unleashed! has a strong track record of contribution at RoboCup since its first competition in 2003: the team developed the first dodge and dribble behaviours in the SPL Soccer league, and won the Scientific Challenges in the SPL Soccer league in 2004, and were runners up in 2004 and 2008 1 . The key focus of the UTS social robotics team is human-robot interaction, knowledge representation, cognitive architectures, emotional and social intelligence, decision making behaviour, software engineering, legal and ethical implications of social robots. Our work is foundational and pragmatic. We aim to develop breakthrough theory and translate into innovative practical methods, and feed our results back into theory development.