Competitions

The Global Conference on Educational Robotics (GCER), produced by the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics, is a professional conference designed for...

Autonomous underwater robotics is an exciting engineering challenge, which attendees can experience at SAUVC. The competition is an excellent learning...

The Nao Challenge is an educational competition for high school students organized for the first time in Italy in 2015 by the School of Robotics (the School...

World Robot Olympiad 2022 in Dortmund In the scope of its activities to strengthen and giovani talents and promote STEM material, the Wilo-Foundation holds...

The REC Foundation is thrilled to present the VEX Robotics Word Championship 2022 presented by the Northrop Grumman Foundation, where our robotics community...

WRO FINALE ITALY 21 May in VERONA The Palazzetto LE GRAZIE in Verona will host the competition but not only! The Palazzetto LE GRAZIE has just been...

The Pan-African Robotic Competition, PARC, is an annual competition for robotics teams in Africa and its diaspora. The goal of the competition is to inspire the youth while promoting STEM education. PARC prepares the youth to use science and technology to address societal challenges. Participants are also given opportunity to network and learn about STEM careers and higher education opportunities. Each year, competing teams are given challenges based on real-world topics relevant to science, engineering and the sustainable development of Africa. PARC 2022 will host two (2) competitions in which teams can compete: a virtual competition and a physical competition in Senegal. PARC 2022 in Senegal ha tre campionati in cui le squadre possono competere: Techs League, studenti delle scuole medie, lavoreranno per migliorare la disponibilità di acqua potabile sicura, servizi igienico-sanitari ed energia. Stars League, studenti delle scuole superiori, lavorerà sull'adattabilità ai cambiamenti climatici. Makers League, anche studenti delle scuole superiori, sono sfidati a porre fine alla fame in Africa. I team vengono giudicati in base alle loro prestazioni robotiche, poster e presentazioni orali. Alle squadre verranno forniti kit robot, che potranno conservare alla fine della competizione. Oltre alla competizione fisica, ci sarà una competizione virtuale in cui le squadre potranno competere in Engeneers League, La sfida della competizione è quella di creare un software che consentirà a un robot mobile su ruote di completare un compito di consegna come navigare attraverso un marciapiede, attraversare la strada usando un passaggio pedonale e navigare in un parco per trovare la posizione di caduta. La prima fase è una simulazione online uguale allo scorso anno che si concluderà il 16 maggio 2022. Le prime dieci squadre avanzano alla fase 2, che si svolgerà in Senegal, dove riceveranno ciascuna un robot fisico da utilizzare in Senegal nel luglio 2022.

The Global Innovation Challenge for Assistance Robots and Exoskeletons for Independent Living will be held again in 2023. The Executive Committee of the Global Innovation Challenge has announced a new Global Innovation Challenge 2023 Living Assistance Robot Contest with a prize pool of $ 1 million. Unlike last year, when participants were prevented from traveling and were able to submit a recorded contest presentation, the intent is for the 2023 GIC Contest to be held in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan (a less than an hour away from central Tokyo). Competitors for the Global Innovation Challenge 2023 Living Assistance Robot Contest will be people living in wheelchairs. The goal is to test technologies, including powered exoskeletons, designed to allow walking without direct assistance or supervision. The competition will bring together robotics, researchers and developers from around the world to test their devices and ideas. It is an opportunity to engage the target demographic, people with walking disabilities who require them to use a wheelchair, earlier in the development process. The Global Innovation Challenge 2023 is structured to simulate the activities of daily life in a defined "apartment". Tasks will include sitting on the toilet, getting ready for the day, preparing a meal, doing laundry, receiving a pack, cleaning and bathing. The best way to explain the competition is to view the entries from the latest iteration of the event: Global Innovation Challenge 2021: Living Assistance Robot Award The challenge is not meant to give people paralyzed or wheelchair-bound due to other causes a sense of false hope that the technological readiness level is here. Assistive robotics technology has some avenues to go before it can be safely deployed for unsupervised home use. The challenge has some lofty tasks for robotic exoskeletons, which users should perform completely independently. Another requirement will be the ability to perform tasks with the hands, while presumably, the wearable robot balances itself. The Global Innovation Challenge 2023 is an opportunity to integrate users earlier into the development process. The challenge also provides a structured environment against which developers can compare their progress. For more information on these topics, see Survey Results and Analysis of Usability Assessment Practices of Use in Wearable Robotics. Powered exoskeletons and wearable robotics will be forced to leave the labs and engineering rooms and face the challenges of everyday life together with their users.

The ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (ABU Robocon) is an Asian-Oceanian college robot competition, founded in 2002 by Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. In the...

Robo Expo is back! The sixteenth edition of the Robo Expo is Saturday 21 May, from 13:00 to 14:00. The Robo Expo is an event for students of all ages, with...

RobotX is a community of innovators driven to make substantial contributions in the field of autonomous, unmanned and multidomain vehicles. We explore,...

Find out how all teams can participate in the International Air Robotics Competition during 2021-2022 without COVID travel restrictions Due to the ongoing COVD-19 situation, both IARC locations have travel restrictions imposed on them regarding participation by international teams. This creates an unfair situation where US and Chinese national teams can participate more freely than teams from other countries because teams resident in the United States and China are more free to participate in venues in their own countries than teams resident outside. the United States or China. AMERICAN OFFICE: Currently, the United States has restricted entry from the following countries: China, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania , Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Brazil, South Africa and India. AT THE SAME TIME, China has imposed restrictions on overseas travel for ALL non-citizens by requiring vaccination with a single Chinese-made vaccine or, if not vaccinated, a minimum 14-day quarantine at a location assigned by the government and paid for by the traveler. Depending on the situation, the quarantine may be longer and teams returning to their home countries may have additional quarantine periods imposed. In an effort to allow teams to continue the development of their MISSION 9 aerial robotic systems and to demonstrate their ability to successfully achieve MISSION 9 objectives, the organizers have modified procedures so that teams can compete from their own institutions of origin, if possible. This document replaces the conflicting sections of the official MISSION 9 Rules. These changes affect the IARC administration and do not change the mission objectives. Without changing any performance parameters required in the Official Rules, Official Teams are allowed to set up their own arenas at (or close to) their universities. Teams can fly the mission "home" without the need to travel to US headquarters or Asia / Pacific headquarters. Arenas must conform to the exact standards set out in the Official Rules and documents available in the "Resources" section of the IARC website (http://www.aerialroboticscompetition.org/resources.php). The deadline for applications for teams that thought they were unable to compete due to travel restrictions has been extended to September 1, 2021. The deadline for Journal Papers describing team entries has also been extended to 1 September 2021. The competition will run for 12 months from the deadline for applications (which ends on 1 September 2022). Teams have this 12-month period to demonstrate successful completion of MISSION 9. If, by September 1, 2022, no team can demonstrate a winning performance, the mission will be extended to 2023. Mission 9 will be conducted in this way. until completion. Depending on the world travel situation, a future MISSION 10 could once again be an "in person" event at each location. Since the teams will now have to create their own arena with a tree and a movement table, the registration fee will no longer be requested (teams that have already submitted their registration fee can receive a refund by requesting the information from the Organizer in writing. banks to which the refund can be wired). This, in addition to the savings made by not having to travel, will help the teams finance the construction of their arena. "Fairness" is a major concern. Teams must be able to validate their best performances in a way that is credible not only for the organizers, but also for the other participating teams. This will be achieved by requiring the following: Three independent witnesses will be obtained from each team to report team compliance to the IARC organizers. These independent witnesses must be professional graduate engineers who are employed by any company that is NEITHER a monetary sponsor of the team, nor affiliated with the team's university. These witnesses will certify that the arena meets the specifications provided in the Official Rules and Resources section of the IARC website (http://www.aerialroboticscompetition.org/resources.php). These witnesses will provide Organizers with their credentials in the form of a paper or online resume (in English) that has their company's contact information so that their employment can be verified if necessary. A checklist of important arena parameters will be provided in the Resources section of the IARC website for use by witnesses in determining arena compliance. The winning run for any team must be validated in terms of performance by two orthogonal cameras at the tree / motion table and a third camera along the entry / exit path. As shown in the figure below. Each of the cameras must be at least 1080p resolution and include an execution timestamp to correlate the views as a security measure to make it difficult to fake the final videos.