  Efforts are underway at UT Austin to build autonomous robot systems that
address the challenges of long-term deployments in office environments and of
the more prescribed domestic service tasks of the RoboCup@Home competition. We
discuss the contrasts and synergies of these efforts, highlighting how our work
to build a RoboCup@Home Domestic Standard Platform League entry led us to
identify an integrated software architecture that could support both projects.
Further, naturalistic deployments of our office robot platform as part of the
Building-Wide Intelligence project have led us to identify and research new
problems in a traditional laboratory setting.
