Robot Comp & Exhibition

Buenos Aires - National Congress
Buenos Aires - Roque Saenz Peña Avenue (aka Diagonal Norte)
Puerto Madero
The Obelisk, the most popular symbol of Buenos Aires
Plaza Congreso
Plaza Libertad
Palacio de Aguas Corrientes

IJCAI-15 will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from July 25th to July 31st, 2015. We look forward to seeing you there.

Prof. Michael Wooldridge, Professor at the University of Oxford, UK is the IJCAI-15 Conference Chair.

Prof. Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong is the IJCAI-15 Program Chair.

Robot Competition and Exhibition

Call for Participation

Competition

IJCAI-15 will host a Robot Competition to help raise awareness of robotics in the AI community and to identify robotics problems that AI can help to address. The competition will take place at IJCAI-15 in Buenos Aires. A list of expert judges will be announced later.

There will be five prizes on offer for real-time robot demonstrations in the following categories: physical skills (e.g. manipulation and motion), social skills (e.g. human-robot interaction, multi-robot collaboration, theory of mind), service tasks (e.g. general-purpose service, cleaning the house, cocktail waiter, security guard) and open (e.g. incredibly awesome applications). As the theme of IJCAI-15 will be AI and Arts, we also welcome entries that demonstrate the interplay of Robotics and Arts.

The key criteria are:

Innovation - what new value or potential impact does the demonstrated capability bring;
Significance - quality of new AI/Robotics research questions it addresses or exposes;
Technical Quality - how well is the demonstration accomplished;
Understandability - quality of the demonstration presentation.

Demonstration are expected to be given in an arena such as a living room and are required to be completed in 10 minutes with synchronous presentation/commendatory, followed by a 10 minute Q&A.

If you are interested in participating in the IJCAI Robot Competition, please complete the registration form below, and send it to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as early as possible, but no later than May 5, 2015.

Entry Team Name:
Country:
Affiliations:
Contact Details including email address:
Team Description including link to website if there is one:
Robot Description including link to website if there is one:
Task/Skill Description of the robot skill/task you will attempt, the AI problems you will address, your general approach, photo/video(s) of the robot(s) not more than 2 pages.

Successful teams will be notified by May 15 if they can be accommodated at the IJCAI-15 venue. Physical constraints of the demonstration area will be made available later. Specific requirements should be pre-approved by the robotic program chairs.

Exhibition

A robot exhibition will be held together with the 2015 IJCAI Robot Competition. The Robot Exhibition is designed to provide a unique opportunity for universities and companies to bring their own robots and show them at the exhibit area, which is open to the conference participants and the public. If you are interested in participating in the IJCAI Robot Exhibition, please send the registration form to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as early as possible, but no later than Friday May 15, 2015.

Participants are expected to manage the logistics for their robots on their own.

Xiaoping Chen and Michael Beetz, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Chairs, the 2015 IJCAI Robot Competition and Exhibition