Typos and clarifications to the whole rulebook. Big subjects will be adressed later after first TC meeting in 2026

[SparkRibeiro21]

Fixed overall typos and ortographic erros.

2.4 “a guide robot for the blind”? removed and rephrased.

2.9 sometimes in the text Robocup shows up in capital letters, I have changed this for consistency (also in chapter 3, 3.2.5.1.3) Changed macro.

3.2.1 Should be living room instead of bedroom

3.2.3 removed sink. It is not used for anything, so it should not be a minimum requirement

3.2.3 Bookcase and Pantry - the only useful thing it says is 30cm between shelves and that is already in the minimal configuration list

3.2.5 Removed dry food containers, also removed the image

3.3.2 - Emergency Stop Button - To prevent problems such as the one in RoboCup 2026 Salvador ( robot bumped into table, referee pressed start button but robot only stopped the arm and not the base, so kept moving and crashed into table and TV). Clarified that all emergency buttons on the robot must stop every moving part of the robot. Which was not clear before.

3.6.14 - Removed: "Unless stated otherwise, the time limit for each test is 5 minutes." Does not make sense, since every task says its time limit.

3.7.3 : Clearly stated that QR codes are not allowed frmo now on

3.8.2.2 Removed penalty for faking robots, does not make sense? No teams get any advantage by doing this. So it only happens when robots fail something. Teams make such a big effort to be on RoboCup so this does not make any sense

4.3 Poster Teaser Session? What is that? Supposedly it is the presentation of the posters. It was not clear and confusing so changed from Poster Teaser Session to Poseter Presentation Session. Cleared everything to a single Poster Presentation Session.

5.1 HRI Challenge - Rewrote main goal, had some errors regarding verb tenses

5.1 HRI Challenge, Optional Goals, 3: switched to “… before reaching the sitting area.” As most of the times the living room is the first room, so before reaching the living room is unfeasible

5.2- Pick and Place Challenge, Setup, objects, table setting, the number of objects does not add up to 7, should be 6

5.2- Pick and Place Challenge, Setup, objects, table setting, other objects: clarified

5.2- Pick and Place Challenge, sometimes it was Dishwasher tab others dishwasher tablet. Changed all to Dishwasher tab for consistency.

5.2- Pick and Place Challenge, Procedure, Serve Breakfast: Clarified to “There needs to be a comfortable amount of free space around the served breakfast items.”

5.3 - General Purpose Service Robot Challenge, added Challenge to the end of the name for consistency to other tasks

5.4 - Doing Laundry Challenge, added Challenge to the end of the name for consistency to other tasks

5.5 - Restaurant Challenge, added Challenge to the end of the name for consistency to other tasks

5.5 - Restaurant Challenge, removed deus ex machina from restaurant challenge

6 - Finals, removed deus ex machina from finals

These were just the straightforward changes, on the 1st TC meeting in January, we will discuss the other important topics that have been signaled and must be discussed.

[LeroyR]

small nitpick:

• remove pps scheduling

others are non blockers/discussions

• i dont love "challenge" in task names