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FIRST Global Challenge 2022

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Start date: 13/10/2022, End date: 16/10/2022

Join us October 13-16, 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland! More than 180 countries will come together face to face in the spirit of global purpose, unity and collaboration. There is no more appropriate place for this year's FIRST Global Challenge than Geneva, the "Capital of Peace" where nations come together to solve diplomatic challenges and where scientific innovation flourishes. The official theme has yet to be announced. The FIRST Global Challenge is an international Olympic-style robotics competition that takes place in a different country each year. PRIMO Global invites each nation to send a team to build and program a robot to compete. Teams work together to complete tasks in a themed game around one of the greatest challenges facing our planet, including the 14 Great Engineering Challenges, in an effort to foster understanding and cooperation among young people. of the world as they use their skills to solve the world's problems. The challenges we face as a global society need to be solved and the next generation can tackle the task - together. "Participants will see how they can compete to provide better solutions, but more importantly, how they can work together. We are all on the same team. We are all competing with the same global challenges. The FIRST Global Challenge allows children from all over the world to participate. solving problems and cooperating with each other to solve the world's problems, "said Dean Kamen, founder of FIRST Global and renowned inventor. The Geneva event will mark FIRST Global's sixth year and its first European event. Previous FIRST Global Challenges have been held in Washington, D.C., Mexico City and Dubai. With a mission to inspire leadership and innovation among the world's nearly 2 billion young people through the sport of robotics, FIRST Global believes it is through science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) that the next generation of the world can work together to create a better world for all of us.

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GIC 2023

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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.

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