2026 RCJ Rescue Rule Changes

[moritz_biobrause]

Dear Rescue Committee,

Does the ruling described in this post

AI Rule Compliance Policy Announcement [RoboCup2025]

Dear teams, We are sharing an important update regarding the use of AI tools and compliance with Rule 4.1 in this year’s competition. Acknowledging Our Responsibility This year, the Committee conducted a detailed review of team documentation prior to the competition, aiming to ensure fairness and consistency in the application of Rule 4.1. However, we found that some teams interpreted the rule differently from what was originally intended. The original wording may not have …

still apply? In other words, can we score the full amount of points using our current approach of utilizing a pretrained YOLO object-detection model (e.g., YOLOv8) trained on images we took ourselves?

Best regards,
Team BioBrause