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RoboCup@Home 2026 Application
Koki Muramoto
2025/11/24
PyLoT Robotics Team Description Website
PyLoT Robotics is the RoboCup team of Kaijo Junior and Senior High School. It was launched in 2023 as a project of the school's Physics Club and formally organized as a team in 2024. While the Physics Club primarily focuses on building robots, drones, and other devices, PyLoT Robotics aims to contribute to society through the development and research of home robots.
PyLoT Robotics provides an environment where middle and high school students can build robots and offers educational programs on robot systems. Members from junior grade 1 to 3 accumulate and develop skills through these programs, playing crucial roles in the team's participation in RoboCup@Home 2026.
Approach
To manage tasks useful in various home environments, service robots must perform tasks covering a wide range of situations and be able to quickly address potential errors. RoboCup@Home, which aims to apply robots to home environments, provides tasks that test a robot's ability to handle these challenges.
Currently, Visual Language Action (VLA)-based models are commonly used. However, such models require collecting robot operation data and parameter tuning for each specific robot, demanding significant manual effort and time. Therefore, this approach is considered unsuitable for robot operation in home environments, particularly for RoboCup@Home.
We propose a self-recovery action planning system based on a Visual Language Model (VLM). This system enables robots to recognize situations and handle unexpected problems based on their own judgment. With this system, even when unforeseen events occur during a task, the robot can appropriately plan its actions and resolve the issue.
Accomplishments
・RoboCup@Home Salvador 2025 OPL
・5th place
・RoboCup@Home Japan Open 2025 Bridge competition
・1st place
・The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Award
・2024 RoboCup@Home Japan Open Education
・6th Place
・2021 RoboCup@Home Asia Pasific S-DSPL
・4th Place
・2020 RoboCup@Home Japan Open S-DSPL
・2th Place
Technical Video
Our Team Description Paper
Website
Contribution
Leveraging our experience in building robot systems with ROS2, we release key functionalities for home robots as open-source software while also engaging in outreach activities for the general public—for example, hosting hands-on events for elementary school students and providing step-by-step learning environments that enable middle school students to develop practical robotics skills—thereby contributing to the ROS2 OSS ecosystem and fulfilling our social responsibility as a robotics team.
Educational programs
PyLoT Robotics provides educational programs on robot systems for the general public.
For example, we offer the “ROS2 Tutorial” to provide middle and high school students without prior robotics education an opportunity to grow through hands-on robot development. We also simultaneously offer the “Manipulator Control Tutorial” as an advanced course for learning robotic arm operation.
While it is extremely difficult for middle and high school students to acquire development skills, we believe it is even more challenging in the field of robotics. We believe our programs can provide such students with hands-on opportunities to interact directly with robots and help them smoothly acquire the broad knowledge necessary for robot development.
Furthermore, by offering these opportunities, we hope to engage younger generations in robot research and development, fostering them as future driving forces for new technological innovations.
We aim to go beyond mere technical education, fostering the “power to shape the future”—including problem-solving skills, initiative, and creativity. To achieve this, we are building a practical community that transcends the scope of typical club activities, enabling middle and high school students to think independently, take action, and continuously challenge themselves with technology.
Team members
Towa Yamashita, Riku Kinoshita, Honda Katasuya, Koki Muramoto