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## RobInLab is chosen to participate in the 2017 Amazon Robotics Challenge

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The Robotic Intelligence Laboratory (RobInLab) at the Universitat Jaume I has been one of the sixteen teams selected to participate in the Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017 (ARC2017) which will take place in Nagoya (Japan) in conjunction with RoboCup 2017 (<http://www.robocup2017.org/eng/index.html>).

ARC2017 is a competition sponsored by Amazon LLC with the goal of fostering research in robotic manipulation so that robots would eventually handle items autonomously in Amazon warehouses. Nowadays, no industrial robot can recognize even a tiny fraction of the millions of items Amazon sells, let alone pick, grasp, and move them safely. Commercially viable automated picking and stowing in unstructured environments is then a major challenge. It is their stated goal to strengthen the ties between the industrial and academic robotic communities and promote shared and open solutions to some of the big problems in unstructured automation. The challenge combines object recognition, pose recognition, grasp planning, compliant manipulation, motion planning, task planning, task execution, and error detection and recovery. The first two challenges, formerly called the Amazon Picking Challenge, were held at the ICRA Conference held in Seattle in 2015 and at the RoboCup 2016 in Leipzig. This is the third edition of the challenge, and the complexity of the tasks has been increased: now, not only the robot must pick pre-defined items from shelves and stow them back, but it must also be able to recognize and manipulate unknown objects from totes to shelves and vice versa, testing the adaptability capacities of the robots.

A committee of experts at Amazon selected sixteen teams among entries from teams worldwide, ranging from top academic robotics programs to academia-industry partnerships to robotics startups. Mainly members of RobInLab, along with students in the Advanced Robotics Erasmus Mundus Master, compose the team. RobInLab has previous experience in this competition, since it participated in the first edition of the challenge. This research is partly funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy through the research project, *Robotic System for Picking Objects in Online Shopping Warehouses* (*RoboPicker*) that addresses a similar problem. The developed prototype will be adapted from a Baxter Rethink Robotics robot, and will be subjected to a thorough evaluation, validation and demonstration process in the UJI lab that faithfully reproduces the conditions of the challenge.

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