Competitions

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.

Amazing Robots - competition for teams of universities and universities of applied sciences The aim of the competition is to show modern technologies and creativity. The aim of the competition is to expand the visibility and interest of information technology, robotics and artificial intelligence and encourage students to combine knowledge of separate fields without bias. A message is also given to industry: new technologies must be used in both products and production without prejudice. The task is to create a robot that makes something interesting. What it does, the team has to invent. The aim is to make creativity and technical skills flourish. Few restrictions and a lot of freedom are given. The competition is open to students of universities and universities of applied sciences. The competition group members must be students of the educational institution on the day of the competition. The maximum group size is eight students. The competition takes place in connection with the Messukeskus Teknologia fair. Assessment The following criteria are used in the evaluation of the robot's performance. Moving the robot or its gestures Visual appearance of the robot Vocal world of the robot Technical challenges and the actual implementation of the robot Cooperation between the active functions of the robot. How the robot reacts to its environment. (Understands or reacts to gestures, speech, music, audience, etc.). In addition, the evaluation takes into account the basic idea of ​​the robot and how well the robot reflects that idea. This is related to the short introductory presentation of the robot that was given at the beginning of the performance. The jury is made up of experts from different sectors. The first prize is € 10,000. The competition is organized by the Association of Information Technology and Electronics (Tietotekniikan ja Elektroniikan seura, TiES) in collaboration with the magazine Mikrobitti and Messukeskus.

Open Platform Challenge: The KUKA Innovation Award 2023 opens up new horizons Get started right away, even without great skills: the next round of the KUKA Innovation Award is all about ease of use and maximum flexibility. For the first time, the € 20,000 robotics competition will be based on KUKA's new robot operating system and associated ecosystem, offering totally new opportunities for creative minds. The final will take place at an industry fair in 2023, where the finalists will present themselves their concepts to a wide audience of experts and have the opportunity to make contacts and exchange ideas. All information can be found on the Open Platform Challenge

25.06. - 26.06.2022 - 6th phaenovum robot competition in Lörrach, Germany RoboRAVE Germany is a competition where self-designed robot students compete against each other. This event focuses on having fun while learning, sharing and teamwork. It is an international competition with participation open not only to groups from the region but from all over the world. Founded in Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA), RoboRAVE is now hosted in many countries on five different continents. Today's game, tomorrow's wages RoboRAVE Germany excites students in math, computer science, natural sciences and technology by giving them the opportunity to apply these skills during problem solving work as they try to master roboRAVE challenges. Open platform Any robot kits and even self-designed robots are allowed up to a total value of EUR 1,500. Participants can also choose any programming or control language. Challenges The following challenges will be offered at RoboRAVE Germany: | of carousel Next line | a-MAZE-ing | | SumoBot fire protection (not in 2022!) RoboRAVE Cyberspace In addition to our face-to-face event, from 2020 we offer an online competition: the RoboRAVE Cyberspace! We have expanded the Open Roberta Lab and developed new challenges especially for RoboRAVE Cyberspace. Equip your robot model with sensors and program it to navigate new tracks in the 2D simulation. Experience the performance of participating robots in the livestream and meet like-minded people in the video chat.

The European Rover Challenge is an international space and robotics event that combines Martian rovers competition with science and technology spectacles. Guided by the slogan "we inspire a new generation", since 2014 we bring the cosmos closer to the general public and make people aware of the growing role of modern technologies in our lives. The ERC is also a meeting place for representatives of the European world of science and business interested in the use of space and robotic technologies. Among the special guests of the previous ERC editions, one could meet, among others, Steve Jurczyk - former NASA Associate Administrator, Robert Cabana - NASA Associate Administrator, Robert Zubrin - founder of The Mars Society, Harrison Schmitt - NASA astronaut and member of the legendary Apollo 17 mission, or Tim Peake - astronaut of the European Space Agency, who ran the London Marathon during his time on the International Space Station. The main part of the project is an international robotics competition, in which academic teams from all over the world present their mobile robot designs, competing in competitions based on real ESA and NASA missions. The competition takes place on the largest artificial Martian track in the world, which derives directly from the surface of the Red Planet. From 2021, the competition takes place in both formulas: ON-SITE (teams compete with self-built robots on MarsYard in Poland) and REMOTE (competitors from different continents will remotely control the robot, physically moving along a track located in Poland, on the campus of Kielce University of Technology). Inspiration Zone, and from 2020 also workshops and other forms of online entertainment, are prepared for tens of thousands of fans of space, science and new technologies, attracted every year by the ERC. One of the most frequent groups of visitors to our event are parents with children, which is why we organize the attractions program to include workshops, interactive performances, speeches and popular science lectures tailored to audiences of all ages.

TEKNOFEST is Turkey's first and only aerospace and technology festival organized with the partnership of numerous organizations that play a crucial role in the development of national technology in Turkey. Having been organized for the first time in 2018, the TEKNOFEST Aerospace and Technology Festival aims to arouse interest in technology across society and raise awareness of Turkey's transformation into a technology-developing society with activities such as technology contests, performances planes, concerts, interviews on various topics and various events. Within TEKNOFEST, technological competitions are organized in various disciplines and categories to allow thousands of young people to make their dreams come true. While a total of 4,333 teams and 20,000 young competitors applied for the technology competitions organized in 14 different categories in 2018, 17,373 teams and 50,000 competitors from 81 provinces and 122 countries applied for the competitions organized in 19 different categories in the 'next year. Looking back to 2020, a total of 100,000 young technology enthusiasts and 20,917 teams from 81 provinces and 84 countries applied for the technology competitions in 21 different categories, which took place within the TEKNOFEST, hosted by Gaziantep. Held for the fourth time from 21 to 26 September 2021 at Atatürk Airport, the TEKNOFEST Aerospace and Technology Festival welcomed 44,912 teams and 200,000 people from 81 provinces and 111 countries who applied for the technology competitions held in 35 different categories . 2,200 teams and 13,000 individuals were qualified to compete as finalists. Taking inspiration from its past, TEKNOFEST continues its journey to the National Technology Initiative with confident steps.