Amazon Robot Picking Challenge 2015

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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Amazon you cheap ass bastards!!!

[cheekyboy]

Go hire a team engineers and pay the $1m it takes to develop it.

Dont give away shit money.

$6k barely covers startup costs hardware.

This solution will save you millions and you wanna pay $6000?

Thats just the CEOs lunch!