Tommoro Robotics announced that Tidyboy, the AI robotics research team led by Pusan National University Professor Seungjoon Lee, who serves as the company’s Chief Robotics Scientist, has won RoboCup@Home 2026.
RoboCup@Home is an international competition evaluating service robots’ autonomous navigation, object manipulation, human–robot interaction, and ability to follow natural-language instructions in home and everyday environments. This was the first year that DSPL, OPL, and SSPL were combined into a single league, bringing together teams that had previously competed on different platforms and under different conditions.
Participants included NimbRo@Home from the University of Bonn in Germany; eR@sers from Tamagawa University and Hibikino-Musashi@Home from Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan; and Tinker from Tsinghua University and WrightEagle.AI from the University of Science and Technology of China.
In addition to winning the first unified league, Pusan National University’s Tidyboy team received the Best Object Manipulation and Best Human–Robot Interaction awards. Strong scores in individual tests and the final round demonstrated the team’s technical performance throughout the competition.
“We won the RoboCup@Home league after seven days of intense competition,” said Professor Lee. “With three leagues merged, many more teams, and revised rules, the competition remained fierce until the final day. Winning an international competition held in Korea against some of the world’s leading robotics research teams makes this particularly meaningful.”
Tommoro Robotics said the result aligns with its work on general-purpose robot intelligence. The company is developing a platform that helps robots understand human intent, adapt to changing environments, and perform tasks reliably in industrial and everyday settings.
“This victory demonstrates the capabilities of Korean robotics alongside leading teams from Germany, Japan, and China,” a Tommoro Robotics representative said. “Building on our research collaboration with Pusan National University, we will advance HABILIS Brain and our other robot-intelligence technologies for real-world industrial and service applications.”