Our laboratory, together with Associate Professor Lin of Okayama University, Assistant Professor Ding of Kyoto University, and Dr. Aoyama of Panasonic Holdings Corporation, is organising a competition on route planning for aerial delivery robots. This year, at AAMAS 2026 (the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems), the leading international conference in multi-agent systems, we will present the content and results of the competitions to date in the Demonstration Track, and will also hold a session to discuss the results of the third competition, the 3rd Delivery Robot Routing Problems Challenge (3rd DRP Challenge).

This year’s conference will be held in Cyprus. As it has not yet taken place, we include here a scene from a presentation at AAMAS taken last year. Given the current global situation, travel is difficult and I do not plan to attend, but if you are planning to participate, we would be very pleased if you could come and listen.