The ToBI robocup team has been newly founded in Jan 2009 in order to proceed existing long-term research in the development of robot companions for domestic environments towards new challenges in more standardized benchmarking procedures, like RoboCup@Home. The main features of the ToBI system are a flexibile Active Memory-based architecture that enables the fast integration of new processing modules and new system behaviors and the modeling of mixed-initiative strategies for multi-modal dialog. The overall goal is an out-of-the-box robot that is able to successfully interact with na¨

ıve users. In this paper we describe the technical basis on which the ToBI system is based and give some insights on previous evaluation experiences.