Robocup@Home - Benchmarking Domestic Service Robots

The RoboCup@Home league has been founded in 2006 with the idea to drive research in AI and related fields towards autonomous and interactive robots that cope with real life tasks in supporting humans in everday life. The yearly competition format establishes benchmarking as a continuous process with yearly changes instead of a single challenge. We discuss the current state and future perspectives of this endevour.