In September 2019, Milton Keynes, UK successfully hosted the first Smart City Robotics competition ‘SciRoc’ funded by the H2020 EU programme. The aim of the competition is to highlight the huge potential for the development of robotic applications in the context of a Smart City. The first SciRoc challenge was held in a Milton Keynes shopping […]
Well… what an event! A huge thank you to all of our sponsors, teams, volunteers and members of the public for getting involved and supporting the 2019 SciRoc Challenge, and to Milton Keynes for hosting us. We were thrilled to see so many people participating, asking questions, interacting with the robots and getting as excited […]
In this video, the Health & Safety robot inspector under development at ISDS, which is called HanS, is navigating KMi searching for a set of relevant everyday objects. The robot’s location on the map can be followed on the top-right display. Its predictions of the object classes and locations (i.e., the rectangular bounding boxes enclosing […]
Below is a selection of photos from the 1st SciRoc Challenge, held in Milton Keynes (UK) on September 18-21, 2019
Congratulations to the winners of the 1st SciRoc Challenge, held in Milton Keynes (UK) on September 18-21, 2019 Episode 3 – Deliver Coffee Shop Orders: Leeds Autonomous Service Robots – LASR (University of Leeds, UK) Episode 4 – Take the elevator: Gentlebots (Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain) Episode 7 – Shopping pick and pack: b-it-bots […]
Experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) from around Europe are coming to Milton Keynes this week and will be taking part in a Question-Time type debate with the general public. Surveys carried out in the UK and across Europe show that the public are excited by the possibilities of robotics and AI, but also concerned about […]
As part of the SciRoc project, a team of researchers from La Sapienza University in Rome (Lun Wang, Luca Iocchi, Andrea Marrella and Daniele Nardi) has developed a dedicated questionnaire to investigate customers’ perceptions with respect to Episode 4 from the upcoming SciRoc challenge, which will take place in Milton Keynes on September 16-22, 2019. […]
The SciRoc team (specifically, Matthew Studley and Mark Wilson from UWE and Enrico Motta, Ian Pulford, Gianluca Bardaro and Agnese Chiatti from the OU) are currently camping in Middleton Hall in Central Milton Keynes, showcasing robotics technology and advertising the forthcoming ERL Smart CIty RObotic Challenge, which will be held in Milton Keynes on 16-21 […]
The 2019 SciRoc Challenge will involve several industrial and academic partners. PAL Robotics is on-board for the project-level organisation. This company, leader in the Research and Development of humanoid robots, provides a platform for companies, universities and end-customers at all levels to customise, based on their daily tasks. The competition will be hosted […]
The call for participation to the world’s first smart city robot competition was officially closed on June 30th. 15 teams from 8 countries will be competing across 5 different robotic tasks (or episodes). Episode 3 – Coffee shop order delivery This episode, sponsored by Costa Coffee, will see robot waiters attempting to manage order deliveries in […]
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