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• News@TheU This summer, the RoboCanes team was one of only 24 worldwide to qualify for the RoboCup@Home league, an international robotics competition in which robots compete in tasks like folding laundry and welcoming guests to a party. The team had the top-performing adult-sized robot in the league and was the only one from the Americas that was able to compete using a humanoid.

These accomplishments are especially notable because this was the first year humanoid robots competed in the RoboCup@Home league. In previous years, the teams used smaller, wheeled robots like the Toyota Human Support Robots the RoboCanes team has employed in past competitions.