RoboCup Rescue

What is RoboCup Rescue?

The RoboCup Rescue Organization's statement regarding the mission and purpose of this competition: "The RoboCup Rescue competition is organized in a format that resembles Response Robot Exercises. These have been effective in communicating capabilities between robot manufacturers and responders. Each robot will be evaluated in standard and draft standard test methods during Preliminaries to demonstrate functionality, reliability, operator proficiency, and autonomous/assistive capabilities. The resulting scores will qualify them for a “deployment” into a more complicated scenario in the Finals. This will enable concurrent testing opportunities for more robots to capture statistically significant performance. It will also encourage testing in more complex or difficult settings, challenging robots beyond their comfort level to compile more points" (RoboCup).