The 1995 Robot Competition and Exhibition was held in Montreal, Canada
, in conjunction with the 1995 International Joint Conference on Artif
icial Intelligence. The competition was designed to demonstrate state-
of-the-art autonomous mobile robots, highlighting such tasks as goal-d
irected navigation, feature detection, object recognition, identificat
ion, and physical manipulation as well as effective human-robot commun
ication. The competition consisted of two separate events: (1) Office
Delivery and (2) Office Cleanup. The exhibition also consisted of two
events: (1) demonstrations of robotics research that was not related t
o the contest and (2) robotics focused on aiding people who are mobili
ty impaired. There was also a Robotics Forum for technical exchange of
information between robotics researchers. Thus, this year's events co
vered the gamut of robotics research, from discussions of control stra
tegies to demonstrations of useful prototype application systems.