Amazon Robot Picking Challenge 2015

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 9, 2014 @02:02PM from the better-picking dept.

mikejuk writes The Amazon Picking Challenge at ICRA (IEEE Robotics and Automation) 2015 is about getting a robot to perform the picking task. All the robot has to do is pick a list of items from the automated shelves that Amazon uses and place the items into another automated tray ready for delivery. The prizes are $20,000 for the winner, $5000 for second place and $1000 for third place. In addition each team can be awarded up to $6000 to get them and their robot to the conference so that they can participate in the challenge. Amazon is even offering to try to act as matchmaker between robot companies and teams not having the robot hardware they need. A Baxter Research Robot will be made available at the contest.

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Re:Reminds me of Real Steel and John Henry by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2014-10-09 14:23 · Score: 4, Informative

John Henry? Isn't that the guy who voluntarily worked a bunch of unpaid overtime to finish his last project before being automated into obsolescence; and then died just in time to save his employer the risk of paying any sort of severance?

Unless you are Jeff Bezos, you might consider a story with a different moral.