Australian Centre for Robotic Vision from Australia Wins Grand Championship at 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge
01 August 2017 - 3:19PM
Business Wire
Additional winners at the event included
Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, winners of the Pick
Task, and MIT Princeton of the U.S., winners of the Stow Task
Contestants at this year’s Amazon Robotics
Challenge were awarded $270,000 in prizes to support continued
innovation within the robotics and automation community
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the results of its 2017
Amazon Robotics Challenge with winners hailing from Australia, the
U.S., and Singapore. Australian Centre for Robotic Vision from
Australia succeed in the Grand Championship Combined Task to win
the overall Challenge with Nanyang Technological University of
Singapore winning the Pick Task and MIT Princeton of the U.S.,
winning the Stow Task. This year’s finalists demonstrated
sophisticated solutions combining object recognition, pose
recognition, grasp planning, compliant manipulation, motion
planning, task planning, task execution, and error detection and
recovery to successfully pick and stow unique items. Teams were
judged based on how many items were successfully picked and stowed
by their robots in a fixed amount of time. A total of $270,000 in
prizes were awarded to contestants throughout the four-day
competition.
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The 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge.
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The Amazon Robotics Challenge aims to strengthen the ties
between the industrial and academic robotic communities and promote
shared and open solutions to the technical challenges faced in
unstructured automation. This year’s Amazon Robotics Challenge was
held during RoboCup, the leading and most diverse competition for
intelligent robots and one of the world's most important technology
events in research and training. RoboCup and the Amazon Robotics
Challenge were held in Japan at the Nagoya International Exhibition
Hall (Portmesse Nagoya).
“This year, we made some changes to the Challenge to make it
even more difficult and to encourage broader participation from
multiple robotics fields – and the response was exciting,” said
Joey Durham, Contest Chairperson and Manager of Research and
Advanced Development for Amazon Robotics. “The versatility of
recognition capabilities in an unstructured environment and the
dexterity of grasping mechanisms was truly impressive. What we’re
most proud of with the Amazon Robotics Challenge is its celebration
of robotic community and the venue it’s created to share and
promote research in a fun and rewarding way. Congratulations to our
winners and all of our contestants!”
The Australian Centre for Robotic Vision team consisted of
researchers, early PhD candidates and undergraduate students who
combined computer vision, machine learning and a variety of robotic
hardware to successfully complete both pick and stow tasks the
fastest. Below is additional information on all winners.
Grand Championship in Combined Task
Winning team
University/organization
Country
Award
1st ACRV Australian
Center for Robotic Vision Australia
$80,000 2nd NimbRo
University of Bonn Germany
$40,000 3rd Nanyang
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore $20,000
Pick Task
Winning team
University/organization
Country
Award
1st Nanyang Nanyang
Technological University Singapore
$20,000 2nd NimbRo Picking
University of Bonn
Germany $10,000 3rd IITK
TCS Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
Tata Consultancy Services India
$5,000
Stow Task
Winning team
University/organization
Country
Award
1st MIT-Princeton
MIT-Princeton USA $20,000
2nd Nanyang Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
$10,000 3rd MC^2
Mitsubishi Electric, Chubu University, Chukyo University
Japan $5,000
Amazon is committed to supporting innovation in robotics and
automation. The company utilizes a wide range of innovative
technology within its fulfillment centers, including more than
100,000 Amazon Robotics drive units in over 25 fulfillment centers
worldwide. Amazon Robotics drive units deliver items directly to
employees at ergonomic work stations and help make associates’
roles more efficient to enable superfast delivery speeds for
customer orders. The company currently has more than 90,000
full-time employees across its U.S. fulfillment network.
For additional information about the Amazon Robotics Challenge
including contest details, participating teams, rules, FAQs and
detailed results, visit www.amazonrobotics.com/#/roboticschallenge.
For more information about RoboCup, visit www.robocup2017.org. A
video from the event can be viewed here.
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