South Korean scientists have won an event at an international robotics competition in Nagoya, Japan.
 
A research team led by Professor Zhang Byoung-tak from the College of Engineering at Seoul National University finished first in the social standard platform league of the RoboCup 2017 competition. The team’s robot AUPAIR completed all eight tasks with top scores.
 
The social standard platform league is a competition for autonomous service robots, evaluating the robots’ abilities and performance in a realistic home environment.
 
RoboCup, which officially started in 1997 with a robot soccer game, is an annual competition for autonomous robots.