New subject: Alternative to YouBot

22 Mar 2019

      I made a change to the RuleBook in 2017, after seeing the Toyota HSR in
RoboCup Japan as part of the RoboCup@Home TC/OC.
https://github.com/robocup-at-work/rulebook/pull/23
At the time, I did a quick search for "off-the-shelf" robots which were
available, and found:
1. Fetch Robotics: Fetch
   2. Toyota HSR
   3. PAL Robotics TIAGo
   4. Robotnik RB-1
DISCLOSURE: at the time of changing the rules, I did not work for any of
these companies, now I do, which is how I've ranked the list.
Another platform, which is too large for robocup@work, is the Kinova Movo,
but worth mentioning because it's dual arm, and has a tone of space for
adding/upgrading computers.
The rule change was discussed at the time, that we were preemptively just
selecting a larger size constraint, to prevent losing any interested teams,
but that the rules could be updated in the future if needed to. The main
limitation now, is that all of the existing teams which have YouBots, which
have very restricted arm range, and therefore the shelves and platform
heights will continue to be small until they're changed over.
There may be other options now: https://robots.ieee.org/
*Alexander Moriarty | *
*Sr Robotics EngineerOpen Source Community Manager*
*Fetch Robotics, Inc.*
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 5:43 PM Alexander Moriarty <
a****************y@brsu.de> wrote:
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---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Kaupp, Tobias t**********p@fhws.de
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 14:52
Subject: [rc-work] Alternative to YouBot
To: r*****k@lists.robocup.org r*****k@lists.robocup.org
Hi Robocup@Work people,
I’m considering to start a new team in the RoboCupIndustrial league,
either Logistics or @Work.
I read that the Kuka YouBot was discontinued a while ago. Are there any
off-the-shelf alternatives which fulfil the rule book requirements? Or do
people need to build their own robot in the future?
Thanks for your help!
Regards, Tobias

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*Prof. Dr. Tobias Kaupp*
Digital Production and Robotics
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