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Get ready to robot! Robot drawing and story competitions for primary schoolchildren now officially open for entries
EPSRC UK-RAS Network
12 Jan 2023
2023 “Draw A Robot” design challenge and “Once Upon A Robot” writing competition have launched, offering unique prizes; entries invited from all Key Stage 1 & 2 children.
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Robotics Grasping and Manipulation Competition Spotlight, with Yu Sun
Abate De Mey
21 May 2022
Yu Sun, previous chair of the Robotics Grasping and Manipulation Competition, speaks on the value that this competition brought to the robotics community.
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Early Days of ICRA Competitions, with Bill Smart
Abate De Mey
21 May 2022
Bill Smart, one fo the early ICRA Competition Chairs, dives into the high-level decisions involved with creating a meaningful competition.
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Duckietown Competition Spotlight, with Dr Liam Paull
Abate De Mey
17 May 2022
Dr. Liam Paull, cofounder of the Duckietown competition talks about the only robotics competition where Rubber Duckies are the passengers on an autonomous driving track.
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Autonomous Need for Speed, with Joe Speed
Abate De Mey
08 Apr 2022
Joe Speed, VP of Product at ApexAI, dives into the current multi-year development process of bringing a car to market, and how ApexAI will transform this process into the shorter development time we see with modern technology.
Team CERBERUS wins the DARPA Subterranean Challenge
CERBERUS
01 Oct 2021
The DARPA Subterranean Challenge planned to develop novel approaches to rapidly map, explore and search underground environments in time-sensitive operations critical for the civilian and military dom...
RO-MAN Roboethics Competition: What is an ethical home robot to you?
Open Roboethics Initiative
10 Aug 2021
So what does it mean for a robot to act ethically within a home environment? Researchers have been thinking about this question from different perspectives for the past couple of decades. Some look at...
RO-MAN 2021 Roboethics Competition: Bringing ethical robots into the home
Open Roboethics Initiative
23 Jul 2021
In 1984, Heathkit presented HERO Jr. as the first robot that could be used in households to perform a variety of tasks, such as guarding people’s homes, setting reminders, and even playing games. Fo...
Simulations, real robots, and bloopers from the DOTS competition: Powering emergency food distribution using swarms
Suet Lee and Sabine Hauert
24 Jun 2021
Results from the DOTS competition were released yesterday, after an intense month with teams from around the world designing new algorithms for robot swarms tasked with delivering emergency food parce...
Winners of the DIH Champions Challenge 2020 revealed at the #EDIH2021 conference
DIHNET
07 Mar 2021
On the 27th of January, DIHNET revealed the winners of the 2020 DIH Champions Challenge at the virtual EDIH Conference 2021 “Gearing up towards European Digital Innovation Hubs”. The awards ceremo...
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Inside Cybathlon, with Anni Kern
Kate Zhou
16 Feb 2021
Robohub Podcast · Inside Cybathlon
Kate speaks with Anni Kern, Head of Communication, strategy, and teams at Cybathlon for over four years. She describes the motivation and concepts for the Cybath...
DOE’s E-ROBOT Prize targets robots for construction and built environment
Silicon Valley Robotics
23 Jan 2021
Silicon Valley Robotics is pleased to announce that we are a Connector organization for the E-ROBOT Prize, and other DOE competitions on the American-Made Network. There is \$2 million USD available i...
#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered leg prosthesis race (with interview)
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
10 Jan 2021
Finishing this series of CYBATHLON 2020 winners, today we feature the victory of the startup Circleg from Switzerland. We also had the chance to interview them (see the end of this post)....
#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the functional electrical stimulation bike race (with interview)
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
19 Dec 2020
In continuation to this series of CYBATHLON 2020 winners, today we feature the victory of PULSE Racing from VU University Amsterdam. We also had the chance to interview them (see the end of this post)...
#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered wheelchair race (with interview + story of pilot)
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
07 Dec 2020
In continuation to this series of CYBATHLON 2020 winners, today we feature the victory of the HSR Enhanced team from the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST). In addition, we inter...
#CYBATHLON2020GlobalEdition winners of the powered exoskeleton race (with interview)
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
04 Dec 2020
The last edition of CYBATHLON took place on 13-14 November, 2020. This competition, created by ETH Zurich and run as a non-profit project, aims to advance in the research and development of assistive ...
Two teams from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia will compete at the Cybathlon Global Edition 2020, the Olympics dedicated to new prosthetic technologie
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
13 Nov 2020
IIT’s teams will compete in the "Powered Arm Prosthesis" category showing two different robotic arm prostheses made in Italy: SoftHandPro and Hannes. The race course is about 30 metres long and will...
CYBATHLON 2020 Global Edition: A competition to break down barriers between the public, people with disabilities and technology developers
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
11 Nov 2020
Involving potential users of a particular technology in the research and development (R&D) process is a very powerful way to maximise success when such technology is deployed in the real world. In add...
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DJI’s RoboMaster FPS Competition, with Shuo Yang
Audrow Nash
21 Jul 2018
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Shuo Yang about DJI's RoboMaster first-person shooter (FPS) competition, a competition designed to get people excited about robotics. For the competition, univ...
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ANYmal: A Ruggedized Quadrupedal Robot, with Marco Hutter
Audrow Nash
11 Nov 2017
In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Marco Hutter, Assistant Professor for Robotic Systems at ETH Zürich, about a quadrupedal robot designed for autonomous operation in challenging environments,...
The referees’ special awards ERL Emergency Robots 2017
SPARC
29 Sep 2017
The European Robotics League (ERL) announced the winners of ERL Emergency Robots 2017 major tournament, during the awards ceremony held on Saturday, 23rd September at Giardini Pro Patria, in Piombino,...
From member to mentor: Life after being a FIRST student
Molly Urbina
12 Jun 2017
3! 2! 1! Go! Suddenly, robots jerk into motion and zoom across the field to score points, crossing over several types of terrain and shooting balls into high and low goals. Another buzzer sounds, driv...
2017 Robot Art Competition winners announced
Robohub Editors
19 May 2017
A record number of teams submitted beautiful robot-created artwork for the second year of this 5-year worldwide competition. In total, there were 38 teams from 10 countries who submitted 200 differen...
Kids celebrate robotics at RoboFes 2017
Alberto Moreno
17 May 2017
Robo Done, the robotic academy franchise for kids from Osaka, Japan, celebrated Japan’s Day of the Children on the 5th of May at their annual event, Robot Festival 2017 or RoboFes. The event welcome...
ARIAC Qualifier 3 is now open
Open Source Robotics Foundation
21 Apr 2017
We are happy to announce that Qualifier 3 is now open for the Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition (ARIAC)! ARIAC is a simulation-based competition is designed to promote agility in in...
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Kickstart Accelerator, with Roland Siegwart and Matthias Hüni
Audrow Nash
17 Apr 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Roland Siegwart and Matthias Hüni about Kickstart Accelerator, a Swiss Startup Accelerator. Siegwart leads the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zürich and is on...
Registration now open for 2nd annual Robotic Art Competition
Robohub Editors
11 Apr 2017
The 2017 second annual robotic art competition with $100,000 in cash prizes is now open for team registration. An international competition for all ages, the contest’s goal is to challenge teams to ...
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CUBE Tech Fair, with Torsten Oelke
Audrow Nash
02 Apr 2017
In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Torsten Oelkes, Executive Chairman of CUBE, about the CUBE Tech Fair. The CUBE Tech Fair is a conference that takes place in Berlin in May that seeks to facili...
Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE: Semi-finalists set sail on a journey to illuminate the ocean
Jyotika Virmani
22 Feb 2017
We have just taken another momentous step in the journey to unveil the hidden wonders of our own planet!
Since the launch of the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE at the American Geophysical Union Fall ...
Switzerland invites international startups to disrupt key industries
Robohub Editors
16 Feb 2017
Kickstart Accelerator, one of Europe’s largest multi-corporate, zero-equity technology accelerators and an initiative of digitalswitzerland, has today announced that applications are open to inte...
The Digger Foundation competing for a $1million prize
The Digger Foundation
30 Jan 2017
The DOME Project of the Digger Foundation has been shortlisted as finalist of the
prestigious Robotics Award for Good taking place in Dubai in February 2017, where
a $1million price will be awarded ...
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ICRA 2016: Landmine Detection Challenge, with Edson Prestes
Audrow Nash
16 Oct 2016
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Edson Prestes, Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and an organizer of the Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge (HRATC) 20...
Photos from the Airbus Shopfloor Challenge
Ioannis K. Erripis
25 May 2016
Robohub covered the Airbus Shopfloor Challenge that took place during #ICRA16 in Stockholm. Below, you can see an extensive photo gallery as part of our coverage. Check it out!...
Soft spot for soft robots? Register for the 2016 Soft Robotics Competition
Harvard SEAS
11 Jan 2016
By Adam Zewe | SEAS
If you have a soft spot for robotics, this competition is right up your alley. With separate tracks for academic researchers, college students, and high school students, the...
Registration now open for #ICRA16’s Airbus Shopfloor Challenge
Airbus Group
23 Dec 2015
The Airbus Shopfloor Challenge invites robotics teams from around the world to create innovative robotic solutions for a real-life manufacturing challenge, and compete live at the IEEE 2016 Internatio...
New $7M XPRIZE competition seeks to usher in a new era of ocean exploration
XPRIZE
17 Dec 2015
At a keynote address this week during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of XPRIZE, announced the launch of the $7M Shell Ocean Discover...
