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euRathlon Competition: A source of real data for robotics research
euRathlon is an EU-funded project that aims to set the standard for research through robotics competitions. It not only provides opportunities to test advanced emergency response robots in very chall...
23 January 2015, by
Marta Palau Franco
Minesweepers 2014: Outdoor robotic competition on humanitarian demining
Minesweepers: Towards a Landmine-Free World is an outdoor robotic competition initiated by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society – Egypt Chapter that aims to raise public awareness of the seriousne...
21 November 2014, by
Alaa Khamis
Drone designers/builders compete in finals of ASME Student Design Competition
Eighteen teams of young engineers-in-training competed for the right to call themselves world champion drone builders at the 22nd annual ASME Student Design Competition (SDC) finals today at the Inter...
17 November 2014, by
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Amazon Picking Challenge
In September 2014 Amazon announced the Amazon Picking Challenge, a new robot manipulation contest as part of the ICRA robot challenges. The idea was to take a difficult problem from the warehouse orde...
05 November 2014, by
Joe Romano
First TRADR EU FP7 Joint Exercise (TJEx)
ALCOR Lab members describe their experience.
From September 23rd to October 2nd the first TRADR Joint Exercise (TJEx) took place at the Tremora hospital (ex American hospital of Calambrone) near Pi...
30 October 2014, by
Zoe Fragoulopoulou
Winners of euRathlon 2014 sea competition recap: Day 3, 4 and 5
euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition funded by the European Union with a focus on realistic cooperative mock emergency-response scenarios in three different domains: land, sea and air. On the ...
07 October 2014, by
Marta Palau Franco
Real-time appearance-based mapping in action at the Microsoft Kinect Challenge, IROS 2014
Last month at IROS the SV-ROS team Maxed-Out won the Microsoft Kinect Challenge. In this post Mathieu Labbé describes the mapping approach the team used to help them win....
03 October 2014, by
Mathieu Labbé
3D printed robotic prosthetic hand makes Intel finals
Our [tweetquote] 3D-printed prosthetic hand project has made the global finals of Intel's Make it Wearable competition![/tweetquote] Open Bionics came out of the Open Hand Project, where we developed ...
02 October 2014, by
Joel Gibbard
euRathlon 2014 Sea competition recap: Day 1 and 2
euRathlon is an outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic emergency-response scenarios inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident. After a successful land-based competition in 2013, a marine-base...
02 October 2014, by
Marta Palau Franco
SV-ROS, Pi Robot win 1st place in IROS 2014 Microsoft Kinect Challenge
A few weeks ago, Pi Robot and I joined the Silicon Valley ROS Users Group (SV-ROS) to help with the effort (already under way) to prepare for a challenging robot navigation contest held at the end ...
29 September 2014, by
Patrick Goebel
Six teams to participate in euRathlon 2014 sea competition next week
Leaks of substances into the sea, damage to underwater structures, machine rooms flooded… these were real challenges that emergency services working at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station ha...
24 September 2014, by
Marta Palau Franco
Boca Bearings 2014 Innovation Competition
http://youtu.be/uvLAbUFXPwo
The Boca Bearing Company is giving away over $10,000 in cash and prizes as part of their 2014 Boca Bearing Innovation Contest. Winners will be chosen based on a video subm...
09 September 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
FIRST 2014 photo essay: Girls of Steel back in St. Louis
The Girls of Steel are in the stands during the awards ceremonies at the Buckeye regional, and we’re waiting to see if our team will make it to the Championships. It has been a long build season; we...
19 June 2014, by
Lynn Urbina
Meet your (ROS-based) cleaning team from Avidbots
The folks at Avidbots — who won an honourable mention in the Robot Launch 2014 competition — are developing ROS-based commercial cleaning robots....
26 May 2014, by
Open Source Robotics Foundation
Robot Launch Finals
Watch the live stream from the 2014 Robot Launch Finals, starting today May 20 at 10AM Pacific. From over 60 entries from all around the world, our judges have narrowed it down to six finalists: DoBo...
20 May 2014, by
Andra Keay and Robohub Editors
Robot Launch 2014 Finals May 20 – Vote now for People’s Choice
Today we announce the six finalists from Robot Launch who will be presenting their pitches online live to a panel of expert judges on Tuesday May 20 at 10am PDT. Join us then to see who takes home the...
14 May 2014, by
Andra Keay
Robot Launch 2014 – Robohub People’s Choice round three
For the next three weeks, Robohub readers can vote for the "People's Choice" startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we're going to publish 10 videos from our Top 30 and during our live...
07 May 2014, by
Andra Keay
Robot Launch 2014: Robohub People’s Choice Round Two
For the next three weeks, Robohub readers can vote for the "People's Choice" startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we're going to publish 10 videos from our Top 30, and during our liv...
30 April 2014, by
Andra Keay
EuRoC Info Day is just around the corner
The European Robotics Challenge (EuRoC) Info Day will take place on May 5, 2014 at the Fraunhofer IPA auditorium in Stuttgart, Germany. Interested participants will have the opportunity to present t...
28 April 2014, by
Bruno Siciliano
Robot Launch 2014 – Robohub People’s Choice Round One
For the next three weeks, Robohub readers can vote for the "People's Choice" startup from the Robot Launch competition. Each week, we're going to publish 10 videos from our Top 30 and during our live ...
23 April 2014, by
Andra Keay
Robot Launch 2014: First round favorites
We had a some amazing entries in Robot Launch 2014 across a wide range of fields, and not all of our favorites made it through to the Top 30. So we’d like to share some highlights of the First Round...
16 April 2014, by
Andra Keay
Robot Launch 2014: Announcing the top 30
Are you ready to find out who the semifinalists are in our first Robot Launch global startup competition for robotics? With 76 applications from 19 different countries, and entries covering industrial...
09 April 2014, by
Andra Keay
€ 7M EuRoC competition opens call to ignite EU manufacturing industry
The call for Europe's newest robotics competition opened yesterday when a consortium of leading robotics and research institutions from across the EU announced the launch of the European Robotics Chal...
02 April 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
The latest in ultra-affordable robots: AFRON competition announces winners
MIT's printable robot wins first place in Hardware category.
In 2012, the African Robotics Network (AFRON) challenged the robotics community to design a $10 educational robot that could inspire kids ...
28 March 2014, by
Hallie Siegel
Last days to enter Robot Launch 2014
Robot Launch 2014 is the first global online startup competition for robotics, and as the deadline for first round entrants approaches (11pm PDT on March 30) we're excited to see just where in the w...
26 March 2014, by
Andra Keay
Introducing the Cybathlon
As we have been enjoying amazing scenes from Sochi, Russia where disabled athletes have been completing in the winter Paralympics, researchers in Switzerland have been considering a new route for athl...
24 March 2014, by
NCCR Robotics
Flying Donkey Challenge announces 33 entrants for first subchallenge
The Flying Donkey Challenge asks teams to create a UAV solution that can eventually circle Mount Kenya collecting and delivering 20 kilo payloads. The first subchallenge in this escalating task will t...
17 March 2014, by
Andra Keay
Robots in a box win LAUNCHedu at SxSW
Elad Inbar's RobotsLAB BOX was unanimously declared the winner of LAUNCHedu at SxSW. In it's third year, the LAUNCHedu conference is held in Austin TX ahead of SxSW. LAUNCHedu focusses on bringing t...
06 March 2014, by
Andra Keay
EVE: An ultimate frisbee playing robot
Being a member of FIRST Team 3504, The Girls of Steel, has been an amazing experience: I have built robots with my teammates, gone to international competitions, and have had great time. We recently ...
28 February 2014, by
Lynn Urbina
Robot Launch 2014: The first global startup competition for robotics is here!
Ready, set, launch! Is your prototype the next breakthrough in home robotics? Or are you developing a smart device, sensor, component or software that will help build the robots of the tomorrow? Roboh...
19 February 2014, by
Andra Keay
