[I-RIM ML] Fwd: [Call for Participants] Announcing the Roboethics to Design & Development Competition (R2D2) at RO-MAN2021

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Gentilissime/i,

siamo lieti di inoltrare la RO-MAN 2021 Roboethics Competition.

Cordialmente.

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Dear Colleagues,
We have just launched a roboethics-themed design challenge for the summer
and hoping to recruit teams to participate from across the globe.
Could you please help spread the following Call for Participants?
Thank you!
AJung Moon To: AJung Moon <ajung.moon at mcgill.ca>
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*[Call for Competition Participants] Announcing the Roboethics to Design &
Development Competition (R2D2) at RO-MAN2021*

We are excited to announce the launch of the Roboethics to Design &
Development (R2D2) Competition, a brand new, roboethics-themed design
competition hosted at the RO-MAN 2021 conference. Imagine a near-future
scenario where a home robot can find and bring items to people. If a
visitor asks the robot to bring him/her one of the household member’s
wallets, how should the robot be programmed to respond? How about when an
underaged member of the family asks for an alcoholic drink?

Your task as a team of students, scholars, or professionals is to program
the robot to respond to the requests in a simulated home environment with
ethics in mind. Top teams will be invited to a presentation and Q&A session
(over Zoom) with a diverse panel of judges who will determine the 1st place
winner. Members of the public will be invited to vote for their favourite
designs to select the citizen’s award winner.

Prizes: 1st place winner ($1000 CAD), citizen’s award winner ($500 CAD)

Dates:

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   Full API & competition files available to teams: Mid-July
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   Submission deadline: Aug. 1st, 2021 (23:59, Anywhere on Earth)
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   Evaluation day (Q&A with the judges): Aug. 8th, 2021, 10:00-14:00 EST
   (14:00-18:00 GMT)
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   Notification of Winners: Aug. 11th, 2021

Visit the competition website (https://r2d2.raiselab.ca/) for further
design challenge details, including high-level API descriptions. We
encourage multidisciplinary teams of students, scholars, and professionals
to participate. Interested participants are encouraged to register in order
to receive latest competition-related updates.

Eligibility:

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   At least one person in a team needs to be comfortable programming in
   Python. Familiarity with ROS and Gazebo will be an asset in programming
   the robot in the simulated environment, but not required. The teams do
   not need to be proficient in advanced robotics topics (e.g., object
   recognition, navigation, grasping), as these functional robot tasks will be
   simplified for the competition.
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   Only one person per team is required to register as an attendee of the
   RO-MAN conference ($30USD).

Don’t have a team yet?

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   Are you an engineer/programmer looking to team up with someone with
   social sciences/humanities, or the reverse? The Open Roboethics Institute
   <http://openroboethics.org/> will help you find a teammate
   <https://forms.gle/oUxXK2iViZczZFre8>.

R2D2 Competition Chairs,

AJung Moon, Brandon DeHart, Jimin Rhim


AJung Moon
Assistant Professor (ECE)
Director, RAISE lab
McGill University <https://mcgill.ca/ece/ajung-moon>
Twitter <http://twitter.com/RoboEthics>, Profile <http://www.ajungmoon.com/>
, Availability
<https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/AJungMoon@McGill.onmicrosoft.com/bookings/>
 Hiring <https://www.ajungmoon.com/prospective-students>


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