Our team, Hibikino-Musashi@Home (the shortened name is HMA), was founded in 2010. It is based in the Kitakyushu Science and Research Park, Japan. We have participated in the RoboCup@Home Japan open competition open platform league every year since 2010. Moreover, we participated in the RoboCup 2017 Nagoya as open platform league and domestic standard platform league teams. Currently, the Hibikino-Musashi@Home team has 20 members from seven different laboratories based in the Kyushu Institute of Technology. In this paper, we introduce the activities of our team and the technologies.

It was a return to the source for RoboCup 2017, which took place last week in Nagoya Japan, 20 years after its launch in the same city. Bigger than ever, the competition brought together roboticists from around the world. Originally focussed on robot football matches, RoboCup has expanded to include leagues for rescue robots, industrial robots, and robots in the home. Kids are also part of the fun, competing in their own matches and creative shows. You can watch video introductions of all of the leagues here, or watch a quick summary below.

Dribbling with a ball at high speed, these football-playing robots have clearly mastered some impressive techniques. Ahead of the 2017 RoboCup in Japan this July, humanoid androids from around the world are currently in warm-up mode. Photographs taken yesterday in the east Chinese city of Rizhao, show some of the country's top man-made athletes in action with dozens of spectators out to watch. The robots appear to be around 11 inches high, with their teams highlighted by coloured plastic jerseys and helmets. It's expected that hundreds of competitors from dozens of countries will participate in the four-day soccer tournament.