ARIA Robotics Dexterity Challenge:
Call For Feedback INTRODUCTION
We imagine a future where robots are collaborative, lending a helping hand in every task possible: sorting recycling, operating machinery, and preparing lab samples. In order to get there, we are challenging roboticists worldwide to develop autonomous systems with state-of-the-art dexterous capabilities.
Robotics systems tend to be designed for specific, repetitive tasks in highly controlled and structured environments. As such, robots have difficulty completing both fine and coarse tasks, handling unseen, delicate or deformable objects, and dealing with changing conditions or uncertainty. We want to see the development of reliable autonomous robotic systems with: • a dvanced multi-functionality (the ability to complete a range of different types of tasks) • a daptability (the ability to handle variability e.g. delicate and deformable objects, previously unseen objects, and working in a range of conditions). For the past 3 months, Challenge Works have been consulting with experts and stakeholders within the robotics industry to design a global challenge that will incentivise breakthrough technologies that push the limits of robotic dexterity and strengthen the UK robotics industry. This is our working prototype for the design of the challenge, which we plan to launch in 2025. As part of our design process, we are asking for feedback so that we can continue to refine the design.
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