Yaskawa
Motoman Robotics is pleased to announce sponsorship of the Amazon
Picking Challenge to
be held in conjunction with ICRA 2015. This open competition will
further the development of robot skills required for e-commerce and
other material handling. Yaskawa Motoman is offering consignment
robots to select teams entering the challenge. Selected teams will
receive their choice of robot model in January, 2015 and may keep
them through June, subject to model availability. To apply for a
Motoman consignment robot, please submit the following items via
this form by
midnight PST December
17, 2014 January
16, 2015 (extended deadline).
Video of a simulated robot executing a picking task
Link to your team/organization website
Completed application describing your Motoman hardware utilization plan
Yaskawa Motoman will provide robots, software (including our MotoROS driver), and onsite technical support both at the team's location and the event.
To support your development efforts, the ROS-Industrial Consortium will be updating its pick and place tutorial to include the Motoman MH5 II model. The tutorial will also be updated to ROS Indigo.
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