Competitions

Date: Tuesday 30th - Friday 2nd June 

About the Competition 

The IEEE RAS Quadruped Robot Challenges (QRC) are robotic competitions mainly supported by IEEE RAS. The ICRA 2023 QRC is the first event in a series of challenges that will evolve from remote control of quadruped robots at a first-person-view station, to autonomous traversing on challenging terrain, and ultimately to racing of multiple quadruped manipulator robots. The QRC has great potential to lead the robotics community in technology advancement, nurture field engineers, and foster interactions with industries, ultimately leading to the creation of practical services for the public.

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Competition Key Dates :

• 30 MAY 2023 - Practice Day
• 31 MAY 2023 - Competition Day

Date: Thursday 1st June-Friday 2nd June 

About the Competition

The ADAPT challenge aims at addressing typical dexterous robot manipulation tasks (e.g., picking of mechanical parts and their precision placement, or insertions) involving intuitive, multi-modal interfaces and human communication channels (e.g., human demonstration by hand-guiding). Selected parts include gear systems that require assembly with tight tolerances, and that can be 3D printed in participants’ own premises. The tasks include object detection and pose estimation, robotic object manipulation in free space and in contact, robot motion planning, collision detection/avoidance, among many others. Teams can participate remote, from their own lab or from three dedicated host locations (Oldenburg, Paris, Tampere).

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Dates: Tuesday 30th May - Wednesday 31st May 

About the Competition 
 

The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) is organising the Manufacturing Robotics Challenge, a two-day hackathon-style event for students, early career researchers and industrial engineers, at ICRA 23 in London. 

The event will be a follow-on from the highly successful UK-RAS Manufacturing Robotics Challenge 2019 and 2021, both hosted by the University of Sheffield and AMRC. Up to 20 participants will compete in teams of four or five to build the tallest Jenga tower using collaborative robots, machine vision, AI, control algorithms, and digital twins. The task is designed to challenge and stimulate some core skills required by robotics engineers. Participants will have to use solid problem solving skills, concentration, strategic planning, mental flexibility, and creativity to complete the task. The challenge is also designed to replicate a ‘Learning Factory’ environment outlined as a simulation of an industrial factory. This will promote a solid understanding of key concepts required in manufacturing such as robotic manipulation, motion planning, perception and vision and will also enable critical thinking approaches to common manufacturing scenarios and higher levels of analytical and organisational capabilities necessary to react to the continuing changes that the Industry faces in the future.

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Competition Key Dates :

Registration Deadline: 16th of April

Confirmation of acceptance: 30th of April

Date: Tuesday 30th May -  Thursday 1st June 

About the Competition:

In the METRICS HEART-MET Physically Assistive Robot challenge, an assistive robot is tasked with fetching an item for a person in a home. The assistive robot should have several capabilities, including socially acceptable interruption, speech and gesture recognition, navigation, object perception and manipulation, safe and socially acceptable physical human-robot interaction and collaboration for object handovers.

During the task, the person communicates to the robot the item they would like, and where it is located. The robot should navigate to the given location, find the item, grasp it, and bring it back to the person and safely hand it over to them.

The challenge is based on several functional and task benchmarks from the HEART-MET competition developed in the context of the METRICS project, building on previous competitions such as RoCKIn, RockEU2 and SciRoc.

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Contact details: healthcare@metricsproject.eu

Dates: Tuesday 30th May - Thursday 1st June 

About the Competition:

Within the framework of the 2023 edition of the ICRA conference, we invite teams to test the design and control of their robots in the Preparation and dish Up of an English Breakfast with Robots (PUB.R) competition. The competition will showcase the last advancements in food handling and preparation, by challenging traditional robotics domains, including navigation, manipulation, and scene understanding, but also proposing novel scientific challenges, such as robotic food tasting, communication, creativity, and art.

The PUB.R competition comprises three different scenarios: Shopping, Cooking, and Serving, each challenging different research aspects, integrated in a single overarching goal. In the first scenario (Shopping), a subset of spices and sauces should be collected from a pantry area, and brought to the cooking station to prepare the desired recipe. In the second scenario (Cooking), the food has to be prepared, cooked and arranged on the plate, by taking into consideration potential taste and appearance of the final dish. In the last scenario (Serving), a robot has to serve the meal to a table for judging preparation and plate arrangement, it has to explain the dish, and to answer simple questions.

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Competition Key Dates :

• April 14 2023 Intention to participate deadline

• April 15 2023 Acceptance notification

• April 21 2023 Participation confirmation

Dates: Tuesday 30th May - Friday 2nd June 

About the Competition 

The world needs robots that behave well in social situations! Can you help design robots to navigate ethically sensitive situations? For instance, if a visitor requests a robot to fetch the homeowner’s credit card, how would you design the robot to react? What if a patient with diabetes asks for chocolate cake in a hospital? Should a robot comply? The Roboethics Competition challenges students and researchers to identify ethically challenging situations and design robots that can navigate these tricky situations. 

Join the 2023 ICRA Roboethics Competition to contribute to the frontier of advancing the discussion of embedding ethics into robot design. Our aim is to enable people from different disciplinary backgrounds to join the challenge. We encourage you to team up with people from different technical and academic backgrounds for this competition. 

This competition is composed of two challenges. The first one is the ‘Ethical Design Challenge,’ in which teams will develop and submit design proposals on how to identify and address ethical issues in a given scenario. In order to foster as much interdisciplinary participation as possible, this stage of the competition is a paper design, that is, no coding hardware design is required. The second challenge is an ‘Implementation Challenge’ that will take place at ICRA 2023, where design proposals from the first challenge will be implemented in the Roboethics Simulation Platform (details provided on the full competition website). The platform offers easy-to-program features that abstract the functional robotic challenges (e.g., object recognition, navigation). You do not need to participate in both challenges. In orther words, participants can choose to participate in either one or both of the challenges. Again, our aim is to enable people from different disciplinary backgrounds to join the challenge. 

This competition will challenge you to think about ethics as a set of concrete design considerations that can be implemented as interactive robot behaviours. 

We look forward to seeing your submissions! 

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Competition Key Dates :

Ethical Design Challenge: Online submission due May, 19th, Friday (AoE) ; Submission methods TBD 

Implementation Challenge: TBD 

Dates: Tuesday 30th May - Thursday 1st June

About the Competition 

AIR, Tsinghua University, in collaboration with the RoboMaster Organizing Committee, will launch the 2nd RoboMaster University Sim2Real Challenge (RMUS) at ICRA 2023. In this challenge, the organizer will provide a downloadable simulator and a cloud-based robotic game field. Throughout the process of completing a specific rearrangement task, participants can develop navigation and grasping algorithms with the simulator and can remotely access the physical robot in the game field for a limited number of verifications.

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Dates: Tuesday 30th May - Friday 2nd June 

About the Competition 

The 7th Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition (RGMC) at ICRA2023 consists of two tracks; “The Cloth Manipulation Track” and “The Manufacturing Track”. Each track focuses on research and industry related tasks that test a robot systems ability to grasp, manipulate, perceive, assemble and/or disassemble objects of interest. Teams compete for points based on their ability to complete the sub-tasks of the track. The goal of the competition is to push research to meet the needs of industry through the benchmarking of task performance.

The Cloth Manipulation and Perception Track tests a system capability in the perception and/or manipulation of textiles. Specifically, the track consists on unfolding and folding rectangular clothes from the Household Cloth Object set, which will be distributed to participants. The motivation of this competition is to identify and gather the community in cloth manipulation, so we look for an easy entry point where participants are able to participate if they are interested in perception, manipulation, or both. 

The Manufacturing Track has two tasks: Assembly and Disassembly of a NIST Task Board (NTB) that contains threaded fasteners, pegs of various geometries, electrical connectors, wire connections and routing, and a flexible belt with a tensioner. A pre-competition design will be made available for selected teams to continue development of their systems leading up to the competition. A separate competition board with modified assembly positions (very similar to the pre-competition NTB), and new parts (identical to all parts used in practice), will be supplied prior to the scheduled competition run.

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Date: Tuesday 30th May - Friday 2nd June 

About the Competition 

This competition focuses on the development of advanced humanoid robot control software for a wrestling game. It relies on a calibrated simulation model of the NAO robot, running in the Webots simulator with realistic physics, sensor and actuator simulation.

Being spectacular and easy to get started with, this competition aims at gathering a large number of competitors, both on-site and remotely. The fully open-source competition software stack was designed to be re-used as a template for other simulation-based robot competitions.

• Difficulty: Master or PhD
• Robot: NAO
• Programming Language: any
• Commitment: a few weeks
• Prize: 1 Ethereum

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Competition Key Dates :

January 16th, 2023 - Registration opens and qualification games start

May 23rd, 2023 - Selection of the best 32 teams

May 30th, 2023  - 1/16 finals

May 31th, 2023 -1/8 finals

June 1st, 2023 - 1/4 finals

June 2nd, 2023 - Semi Finals, third place game and final

The finals will take place at the ICRA 2023 conference in London and will be broadcasted online in real time. Remote participation will be possible.

Prize 

The winning team will receive one Ethereum crypto-currency (priced around USD 1'547 on January 16th, 2023).

Participation 

Anyone can participate: there is absolutely no restriction on the quality and number of team members. Participation is free of charge, including the finals.

Dates: Tuesday 31st May - Thursday 1st June 

About the Competition 

The teams participating in 10th F1TENTH Grand Prix at ICRA 2022 will build a 1:10 scaled autonomous race car according to a given specification and write software for it to fulfill the objectives for the competition: Race head-to-head, Don’t crash and minimize laptime. Each team will bring their own physical F1TENTH car with their own written software. The organizers provide the race setup (rules, submissions, guidelines), the track, related infrastructure and organize the race itself.

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Dates: Tuesday 30th May  - Friday 2nd June 

About the Competition 

The BARN Challenge aims at evaluating state-of-the-art autonomous navigation systems to move robots through highly constrained environments in a safe and efficient manner. The task is to navigate a standardized Clearpath Jackal robot from a predefined start to a goal location as quickly as possible without any collision. The challenge will take place both in the simulated BARN dataset and in physical obstacle courses at ICRA2023.

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Dates: Wednesday 31st May - Friday 2nd June 

About the Competition:

The Virtual Manipulation Challenge aims to reduce the gap between robotic simulation and real-world setups, providing the possibility to train robot behavior for complex manipulation scenarios first in simulation and later transferring the learned policy seamlessly to the real-world setup. The challenge addresses three different manipulation tasks frequently occurring in automation industry: (i) picking individual objects from heavily cluttered bins, (ii) assembly by screwing and plugging, and (iii) stacking. These scenarios offer the opportunity for researchers and industrial professionals in the field of autonomous robotic manipulation to apply their approaches to ambitious real-world industrial use cases provided by internationally renowned industrial sponsors.

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Competition Key Dates :

• 10th January 2023: Registration for the challenge opens.
• 31th January 2023: Docker containers for the different tracks will be available for download.
• 14th April 2023: Registration for the challenges closes.
• 7th May 2023: Deadline of solution submission.
• 31th May - 2nd June 2023: live presentation and discussion of challenge results at ICRA
  - 31th May: bin picking
  - 1st June: stacking
  - 2nd June: assembly

Dates: 1st January - 25th May

About the Competition:

The RoboDepth Competition @ ICRA 2023 focuses on exploring monocular depth estimation algorithms that are robust against out-of-distribution corruptions occur in the real-world environment.

This competition is built upon the RoboDepth depth estimation benchmark, which is the first benchmark that targets probing the robustness of depth estimation models under common corruptions ranging from 1) adverse weather and lighting conditions, 2) sensor failure and movement, and 3) data processing issues.

We host two tracks for robust depth estimation: 1) a self-supervised learning track on robust depth estimation from outdoor driving scenarios; and 2) a fully-supervised learning track on robust depth estimation from indoor scenes.

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