Dialogue Robot Competition 2022 will be held in the coming summer and autumn in 2022. All are welcome to participate in the competition, but the dialogue task of the competition this year is in Japanese. Some materials in this site are only available in Japanese.
Team LINE won Best performance award.
Team LINE was selected to receive Best performance award (1st place), and Team MIYAMA and OS were selected to receive Outstanding performance award (2nd and 3rd place) at the final round held on 25th October at Robot Competition of IROS 2022. The details are reported here.
The dialogue robot competition 2022 is the first international competition for the communication capability of conversational robots. A very human-like android robot is used. The competition has two rounds, a preliminary round and the final round. At IROS2022 (international conference about robotics), the top teams in the preliminary round will compete, and the winning team will be decided.
The task for the robot is to recommend tourist spots around a certain facility. The robot needs to use language, gestures, and other multimodal behavior in order to make the user interested in the recommended spots. In the preliminary round, the conversational robot of each team is placed in a shopping mall or at a public facility, where the people visiting these places talk to the robot and evaluate its performance by questionnaire. In the final round at the IROS venue, designated dialogue researchers as well as those working in the tourist industry talk to the robot for evaluation. Through this event, we can cultivate knowledge as to how a dialogue robot should provide dialogue service in the future. For example, we can obtain insights into the kind of human behavior a robot should recognize, how to show emotion and gestures for recommendation, and how a robot should generate appropriate utterances in a given situation. We believe such insights will be of interest to the robotics community.
This competition is supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP19H05690 and JP19H05692 (“Communicative intelligence project”) Japan.
Organizers
Dialogue robot competition committee
Cooperation companies
