The competition

11:59 p.m. CET

• Gather a team of two to four people
• Prepare a 2-page motivation letter explaining your team’s qualifications, team formation, and research areas of interest and expertise
• Add a short video (2 Min. max) about your previous work
• Fill in your team application on this form.

• Selected teams will be notified and will receive their competition task board by mail

• Meet the competition organizers, sponsors, jury, and other competing teams
• Review the competition outline and receive the official competition scorecard
• Ask questions and get answers related to the event prior to the start of the development period

• You have four weeks of development time
• Create a fully autonomous solution with your robot platform
• Log as many trial attempts as possible with the task board
• Follow the scorecard to earn the most points

11:59 p.m. CET

• Create and submit an uncut video of your solution (10 Min. max)
• Submit a presentation video (5 Min. max) describing your approach, algorithms is used in your solution and your local e-waste assignment
• Include a Github project link documenting your robot platform with a quick start to run your solution

• Will be conducted over video conference with one or more jury members to be scheduled upon submission of a valid solution
• Teams must provide two video streams: (1) fixed with a view of their robot and task board, (2) portable to “walk” the jury around the room
• 20 Min. Zoom call with the jury
• 10 Min. to demonstrate your solution; you have 2 attempts
• Teams will have 2 attempts to present their solution, the best score will be counted

• The Grand Challenge Jury will determine the winnners of the competition. The finalists will be informed afterwards.
• Team scorecards, live jury presentation video, and task board measurements will be considered

• Finalists will be recognized and awarded on the munich_i platform at the automatica trade fair from June 27-30, 2023

Team’s must provide details about their intended robot platform in their team application. Our goal is to provide the lowest barrier to entry for teams to participate in cutting edge robotics research and welcome all teams, from universities and companies, to apply. The competition seeks to find the best automated solution for the challenge tasks. Human performance is established as a baseline measurement for all solutions and, therefore, bimanual systems may be preferred. All the challenge tasks have been designed to be completed with a single arm manipulator and pinch gripper. The organizers will review each team’s robotic platform in their application and will create performance categories for teams with significantly different hardware as deemed necessary by the Grand Jury.

Safety: All participating teams are responsible for their own safety when operating equipment in connection with the competition. As such, the organizers do not take responsibility for damages that may occur.

• Task board and trial scorecards will be sent to teams at the start of Robothon® at the End of March
• Trial runs will have a maximum run time of 10 minutes
• Teams will be graded using an uncut video (max. 10 min) of their robot performing their solution on their task board AND with a Live Presentation with the Grand Challenge Jury to be scheduled over a video call
• Once a trial has started, each team’s robot is expected to complete the entire set of tasks autonomously. Each human intervention will incur negative points for the team’s final trial score
• No more than 2 trial attempts will be permitted during the Live Presentation with the Grand Challenge Jury