The World Robot Challenge brings together the world's most advanced robot technologies.It is a competition that promotes social implementation of robots by accelerating technological development through competition and showing robots working on actual problem solving in the classification of "manufacturing", "service", "infrastructure / disaster response", and "junior". ..A total of 123 teams from Japan and overseas participated this year, and 23 teams from Japan and overseas participated in the service division "Future Convenience Store Challenge".In order to respond to the declining working population and the aging society, we competed for "realization of a future convenience store" that reduces the burden on employees with robot technology and provides new services to customers.

　For the competition, we built a system that combines OMRON's strategic alliance with Techman's arm-type cooperative robot "TM series" and OMRON's automatic transfer mobile robot "LD series" in May 2018.Omron's core technology "Sensing & Control + Think" technology, Techman's robotics technology, and the technology of each university are highly combined, and high scores were obtained in the issues of food display and disposal.
　
　This joint team will continue its activities for the robot competition of "World Robot Summit 2" scheduled to be held two years later, further advance the development of robot technology, labor shortage due to declining birthrate and aging population, and in emerging countries. We will contribute to solving social issues at manufacturing sites such as soaring labor costs.

Reference: [Chukyo University] Hashimoto Laboratory Joint Team "ROC2", Faculty of Engineering, won 2018nd place at World Robot Summit 2!Received the Robotics Society of Japan Special Award