Life in the Robotics Lab

The first contest is just a way to “warm-up”. It is pretty easy, but it does not mean that it is not important to us.

FIRST PRIZE IS $500 CASH!

Very soon, we are going to launch our new robot, REEM-H. The purpose of this new robot is to make a robotic platform that is commercially available and is more oriented than our REEM-B, for commercial applications. This is a short resume of its main features:

1. It has wheels instead of legs and it can navigate independently in an indoor environment (office, shopping mall, house etc.). It moves well on any floor that a motorized wheelchair can move.
2. It has a humanoid torso with a head and 2 arms and it can move as humans do. The hands are very simple and can grasp simple objects such as trays, bottles, cans of soft drinks, door handles etc..
3. It has face detection and very basic voice recognition. It can detect the presence of humans around him. You cannot chat with the robot, yet.>
4. A touchscreen on the chest of the robot is where media content and user interfaces can be displayed.

What we need are suggestions for killer applications for our robot; we have many ideas; museums guides, entertainment robot in shopping malls, platform for remote telepresence, to name just a few. But maybe you can suggest a better idea?

RULES

• The prize will be awarded to the idea that is more:
  • ORIGINAL: Don’t try “nurse for older people”. It is unlikely you will be the only one thinking of that.
  • FEASIBLE: in the short term. It is a given that robots will be able to do amazing things in a decade or two, but this contest is about applications that can be done right now.
  • WELL WRITTEN: it should be understood. To us and to a larger audience as well.
• You must present you idea in a title of maximum 100 characters and an abstract of maximum 1000 characters.
• Only text in English will be reviewed.
• The deadline for submissions is the 1^st of October, 2010. Winner will be announced on the 15^th of October 2010.<
• The prize is 500 USD cash!

The detailed list of Terms & Conditions is listed in PDF file in attachment. Participating in this contest you declare that you have read and agreed to these rules. 

You can find the webform to participate to the contest here: Click here for Contest

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