The second annual Robot Competition and Exhibition sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence was held in Washington D.C. on 13-15 July 1993 in conjunction with the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. This article describes the robots that placed first and second in each event and compares their strategies and their resulting successes and difficulties.

Place he 1993 robot competition consisted of the Office, (2) Office Delivery, and (3) Lockheed Palo Alto Research Labs, Second Office Rearrangement. The unifying theme Place for these events was autonomous robotics in realistic office environments. The legs, and then to quickly complete a slalom office contained actual furniture, including course and recognize the finish wall. In the second event, Office Delivery, the This realistic environment was a hurdle for objective was to self-locate using an office conventional robotic sensory systems. Thinlegged map, search an area for a given object (a coffeepot), tables and chairs are nearly invisible to and then navigate to a specified sonars, as are black cabinets and bookcases to delivery area.