Boxy is our new omnidirectional dual-armed robot platform. It is being built around a custom omnidirectional base and KUKA-lightweight LWR-4 arms. It is an upgraded version of TUM-Rosie, which was deployed in the Assistive Kitchen environment of the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group (http://ias.cs.tum.edu). The main objective of the research performed on- and around the robot is to develop a system with the very high degree of cognition involved. The latter thus envisions a system that can intelligently perceive environments, reason about them, autonomously infer best plausible actions and in the end, also successfully execute them.

The robot's hardware include:

• KUKA LWR-4+ arms
• 2-DOF Pan-Tilt unit from Schunk
• Omnidirectional base, using mechanum wheels
• DLR-HIT Hands 2 (by Wessling Robotics)
• Movable torso
• Hokuyo laser scanners
• Kinect2
• Force torque sensor on the wrist of the arm (Weiss Robotics KMS40)

Following video demonstrates some of the so far developed capabilities: