At the RoboCup@Home 2025 Open Platform League (OPL), Professor Seung-Joon Yi of Pusan National University, who also serves as Chief Robotics Scientist at Tommoro Robotics, led his team Tidyboy-OPL to the overall championship.

The team achieved a total score of 6,065 points, surpassing all competitors by a large margin — a lead greater than the combined totals of the second, third, and fourth-place teams.

A major contribution to this victory came from their performance in the Enhanced General Purpose Service Robot (EGPSR) task, where the team earned 1,865 points, the highest among all participants.

EGPSR is the most demanding and comprehensive benchmark in the RoboCup@Home competition. It requires a robot to navigate autonomously across multiple rooms, detect and dispose of trash or misplaced objects, and perform random user-requested tasks described in natural language. These instructions are given spontaneously during evaluation, testing a robot’s real-time reasoning, generalization, and interaction capabilities.

In this event, Prof. Yi’s robot demonstrated reliable autonomous behavior — moving through complex indoor spaces, identifying and cleaning debris without human intervention, and responding flexibly to arbitrary verbal commands such as fetching, organizing, or assisting tasks. The system maintained stable perception and planning throughout, earning the top EGPSR score and securing the overall win.

This accomplishment highlights Prof. Yi’s expertise in autonomous service robot intelligence and natural-language-grounded robot control, research directions that directly align with his ongoing work at Tommoro Robotics on the company’s Vision-Language-Action (VLA)–based Robot Foundation Model (RFM).

Prof. Yi’s success at RoboCup@Home 2025 underscores how advances in research can translate into deployable, intelligent robotic systems capable of operating in complex human environments.