Dear RoboCup@Home teams, you probably have already received the call below.

Please let me add some useful information about this event that we believe would be very useful for RoboCup@Home teams.

1) Teams are not required to participate to all the tests (although it is preferable) and the final ranks and prizes will be for each TBM/FBM. Two tests (TBM4 and TBM5) are shared with RoboCup@Home 2016 rules.

2) Since RoboCup 2016 also counted as part of the ERL-SR, some RoboCup@Home teams have a good position in the rank. However, to get the prizes, a team needs to attend to least two tournaments (see the current standings in https://sites.google.com/a/dis.uniroma1.it/erl-sr-peccioli/competition).

3) Prizes will be publicly awarded at the European Robotic Forum 2017 (http://www.erf2017.eu/) It is a great opportunity for the best teams in each TBM/FBM.

4) The local tournament includes also some Software Integration sessions where we provide teams with software components that are useful for @Home/Service robots. In Peccioli we are planning to help teams to install, configure and test on their robots the following software components: navigation and speech understanding More information will be updated soon in https://sites.google.com/a/dis.uniroma1.it/erl-sr-peccioli/resources

5) A limited number of teams will be accepted and travel support will be provided.

Deadline for application: ***December 15, 2016***

If you have any question, do not hesitate to contact me.

Best regards, Luca.

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Call for Participation European Robotics League (ERL) Service Robots

3rd Local Tournament 30.1 - 3.2.2017 Echord++ RIF in Peccioli Peccioli (Pisa), Italy ==================================================================

The European Robotics League is an innovative concept for robot competitions which focuses on tasks that service robots execute in a real home environment and is composed of multiple "Local tournaments", held in different research labs across Europe.

More information about this tournament:http://tinyurl.com/h6ngwoh

Important dates:

* 15 Dec 2016 - Deadline for application and request for travel support * 23 Dec 2016 - Qualification announcement

Extended call for participation attached.

Best regards,

Luca Iocchi (on behalf of ERL-SR organizing committee)