This repository holds the results and contributed works from the Robothon Grand Challenge Series. Details about the event can be found on the competition website: www.robothon-grand-challenge.com.
Robot Teams develop fully automated solutions to the manipulation challenges defined on an electronic, internet-connected task board and their results are remotely assessed by a digital robot judge with a web dashboard. Interested readers can read more about our approach in our IEEE-RAM paper.
Teams apply to receive a task board in the mail to prepare fully automated robot manipulation skills with their own robot platform. Teams follow a trial protocol to earn points and compete for the fastest execution time over a 30-day development period. Qualified teams present their results live to an expert jury over video conference for verification. The scores below reflect each team's progress in the competition. Teams who have completed the full trial protocol with the fastest completion time during the jury-witnessed demonstration are considered the event winners. Completion times are listed in seconds.
- Robothon 2025 Results
- Robothon 2023 Results
- Robothon 2022 Results
- Robothon 2021 Results
- Getting your own electronic Task Board
- Citation
NOTE: No Robothon event in 2024, see euROBIN Manipulation Skill Versatility Challenge at IROS 2024 event website
- Application Deadline: 13.04.2025
- Kickoff Meeting: 02.05.2025
- Submission Deadline: 02.06.2025
- Jury Evaluations: 05-07.06.2025
- Award Ceremony: 27.06.2025
10-minute time limit for fully autonomous solution, task board randomly placed by team and fixed on velcro strips prior to trial start.
- TBv2025 "Touchscreen & Marble Maze" Protocol
- START TRIAL: Press Button B "Middle" (Human) or Send ROS Message (Robot),
- TASK 1: Localize task board and Press Blue Button,
- TASK 2: "SPEED TEST" Press Red Button as fast as possible after releasing the Blue Button,
- TASK 3: "LIGHT Test" Wait for button light to illuminate after a random time and then press the button,
- TASK 4: "SCREEN TEST" Trace randomly-generated shapes, then Follow Prompts,
- TASK 5: "MARBLE MAZE TEST" Move and catch the falling marble in the maze by navigating through each of the three illuminated gates using the stylus magnet,
- END TRIAL: Place the stylus back on the stand to end the timed trial.
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Automatic Grading: Task Completion Time over the 2025 version Web Dashboard
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Part 1 Score (210 points available):
- Robustness: Success Rate over 5 Back-to-Back Trial Attempts (100 points, 20 points per trial run)
- Documentation: Github Repo of Submission with Quick Start Guide (30 points)
- Code Re-Use: Solution uses a function or feature of a previous Robothon team solution which clear citation and attribution via GitHub Fork and Pull Request (50 points).
- Transferability: "Bring Your Own Device" Challenge (30 points)
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Part 2 Score (40 points available): Live Presentation: 30min Zoom Call with Jury (40 points)
2025 Summary Scorecard:
- 8 Applications, 8 Selected Teams, 1 Finisher, Best Time 106 seconds.
- 16,000EUR Prize Money, 3 Sponsors, 7 Jury Members, 3 Partners
| Rank | Team Country Robot Platform | Task Board Time (seconds) | BYOD Demo | Part 1 Points | Part 2 Jury Points (Mean) | Total Points | Submission Repo | Submission Video |
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| 1 | Atlabotics (Ireland) UR5e | DNF | Text-to- Action Interface | 210 | 37.5 | 247.5 | Link | Video |
| 2 | RoboTechX MDX (UAE) Epson VT6 | 106 | Screen Puzzle Solver | 210 | 29.0 | 239.0 | Link | Video |
| 3 | RoboPig (Germany) UR5e | DNF | Phone Screen Test App | 110 | 17.3 | 117.3 | Link | Video |
| 4 | Ctrl+Bot (Germany) Kinova Gen3 | DNF | None | 40 | 9.6 | 49.6 | Link | Video |
| - | Botzilla (Germany) | DNF | ||||||
| - | MechaAdam (Germany) | DNF | ||||||
| - | SECORO (Germany) | DNF | ||||||
| - | TCS-Roboverse (India) | DNF |
- Application Deadline: 28.02.2023
- Kickoff Meeting: 28.03.2023
- Submission Deadline: 30.04.2023
- Jury Evaluations: 08-11.05.2023
- Award Ceremony: 29.06.2023
10-minute time limit for fully autonomous solution, task board randomly placed by team and fixed on velcro strips prior to trial start.
- TBv2023 "Multimeter Design" Protocol
- START TRIAL: Press M5 Button (Operator),
- TASK 1: Localize task board and Press Blue Button,
- TASK 2: Move slider to center of travel, then read the randomly selected set point from the screen and move the slider to match,
- TASK 3: Pick up the Probe Cable Plug and insert into the Test Port,
- TASK 4: Open Door, pick up Probe Tip and insert into the Terminal Block Test Point,
- TASK 5: Wrap the Probe Cable around the two Posts and stow the Probe Tip,
- END TRIAL: Press Stop Button (Robot)
- Automatic Grading: Task Completion Time over the 2023 version Web Dashboard
- Part 1 Score (160 points available):
- Robustness: Success Rate over 5 Back-to-Back Trial Attempts (100 points, 20 points per trial run)
- Documentation: Github Repo of Submission with Quick Start Guide (30 points)
- Transferability: "Bring Your Own Device" Challenge (30 points)
- Part 2 Score (40 points available): Live Presentation: 30min Zoom Call with Jury (40 points)
2023 Summary Scorecard:
- 29 Applications, 20 Selected Teams, 7 Finishers, Best Time 57 seconds.
- 23,000EUR Prize Money, 5 Sponsors, 9 Jury Members, 2 Partners
| Rank | Team | Country | Part I Score | Part II Score | Total Score | Best Trial Time | Repo | Submission |
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| 1 | RoboPig | DE | 160 | 40 | 200 | 57 | Link | Video |
| 2 | bisCARI | IT | 160 | 40 | 200 | 73 | Link | Video |
| 3 | OSCAR | FR | 160 | 40 | 200 | 67 | Link | Video |
| 4 | TechWi(e)nBot | AT | 160 | 40 | 200 | 62 | Link | Video |
| 5 | REAL Robot | CN | 160 | 40 | 200 | 82 | Link | Video |
| 6 | b-it-bots | DE | 140 | 40 | 180 | 360 | Link | Video |
| 7 | Upcyclers | DE | 135 | 36 | 171 | 180 | Link | Video |
| 8 | PLATOnics | NL | 110 | 36 | 146 | 330 | Link | Video |
| 9 | EcoBot | DE | 77 | 36 | 113 | 175 | Link | Video |
| 10 | Wall-E 4.0 | DE | 55 | 36 | 90 | 295 | Link | Video |
| 11 | Sophia S&P Labs | FR | 60 | 35 | 90 | DNF | Link | Video |
| 12 | RoboTechX MDX | AE | 90 | 0 | 90 | 187 | Link | Video |
| 13 | Indian Institute of Science Bangalore | IN | 85 | 0 | 85 | DNF | Link | Video |
| 14 | SYNbotics | DE | 58 | 0 | 58 | DNF | Link | Video |
| 15 | roboTHIx | DE | 49 | 0 | 49 | DNF | Link | Video |
| 16 | autonomous:go | CS | 47 | 0 | 47 | DNF | Link | Video |
- Application Deadline: 05.04.2022
- Kickoff Meeting: 29.04.2022
- Submission Deadline: 29.05.2022
- Jury Evaluations: 02-08.06.2022
- Award Ceremony: 21.06.2022
10 minute time limit, Task Board randomly placed by team and fixed on Velcro Strips prior to trial start
- TBv2022 "Rigid Design" Protocol
- START TRIAL: Press M5 Button (Operator),
- TASK 1: Find Task Board and Press Button to Confirm,
- TASK 2: Pick Key from Holster and Activate Key Switch,
- TASK 3: Move Ethernet Plug,
- TASK 4: Open and Extract AA Batts,
- TASK 5: Recycle Batts,
- TASK 6: Extract Coin Batt,
- END TRIAL: Press Stop Button (Robot)
- Automatic Grading: Task Completion Time over the 2021 version Web Dashboard
- Robustness: Success Rate over 5 Back-to-Back Trial Attempts (100 points)
- Documentation: Github Repo of Submission with Quick Start Guide (30 points)
- Transferability: "Bring Your Own Device" (30 points)
- Live Presentation: 30min Zoom Call with Jury (40 points)
2022 Summary Scorecard:
- 25 Applications, 20 Selected Teams, 6 Finishers, Best Time 31 seconds.
- 18,000EUR Prize Money, 4 Sponsors, 9 Jury Members, 2 Partners
| Rank | Team | Country | Score | Time | Repo | Submission |
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| 1 | CARI | IT | 200 | 79 | Link | Link |
| 2 | Singularitas | SI | 200 | 96 | Link | Link |
| 3 | RoboTechX MDX | AE | 190 | 31 | Link | Link |
| 4 | MMR UAS Technikum Vienna | AT | 200 | 104 | Link | Link |
| 5 | RoboPig | DE | 189 | 107 | Link | Link |
| 6 | OSCAR | FR | 181 | 118 | Link | Link |
| 7 | Wall-E 3.0 | DE | 157 | DNF | Link | Link |
| 8 | PakBot | AF | 131 | DNF | Link | Link |
| 9 | WasteWatchers | AT | 126 | DNF | Link | Link |
| 10 | RoboVision | DE | 106 | DNF | Link | Link |
| 11 | WasteHandlerX | DE | 95 | DNF | Link | Link |
| 12 | UTS InterpolatURs | AU | 94 | DNF | Link | Link |
| 13 | Inte-R-Action | UK | 77 | DNF | Link | Link |
| 14 | Pandaria 2.0 | DE | 36 | DNF | Link | Link |
| 15 | UTS-1 | AU | 30 | DNF | Link | Link |
- Application Deadline: 05.04.2021
- Kickoff Meeting: 14.05.2021
- Submission Deadline: 13.06.2021
- Jury Evaluations: 14-18.06.2021
- Award Ceremony: 22.06.2021
10 minute time limit, Task Board randomly placed by team and fixed on Velcro Strips prior to trial start
- TBv2021 "Cantilevered Design" Protocol
- START TRIAL: Press M5 Button (Operator),
- TASK 1: Find Task Board & Press Button to Confirm, (2 points)
- TASK 2: Pick Key from Holster and Insert and Turn to Activate Key Switch, (4 points)
- TASK 3: Move Ethernet Plug from starting port to goal port, (4 points)
- TASK 4: Open Battery Box and Extract 2xAA Batts, (4 points)
- TASK 5: Recycle 2xBatts by placing them into the Recycling Slots, (6 points)
- END TRIAL: Press Stop Button to end timed trial.
- Automatic Grading: Task Completion Time over the 2021 version Web Dashboard
- Live Presentation: 30min Zoom Call with Jury (20 points)
2021 Summary Scorecard:
- 14 Applications, 9 Selected Teams, 4 Finishers, Best Time 110 seconds.
- 23,000EUR Prize Money, 3 Sponsors, 9 Jury Members, 1 Partner
| Rank | Team | Country | Score | Time | Submission |
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| 1 | RoboTHIx | DE | 20 | 110 | Link |
| 2 | RoboPig | DE | 20 | 178 | Link |
| 3 | Ewas | IT | 20 | 412 | Link |
| 4 | RAND-E | EG | 20 | 455 | Link |
| 5 | Wall-E 2.0 | DE | 17 | DNF | Link |
| 6 | Stevens' Institute | US | 12 | DNF | Link |
| 7 | ECODOBO | IN | 8 | DNF | Link |
| 8 | Pandaria One | DE | 6 | DNF | Link |
| 9 | Schmalkalden | DE | (20) | DNF | Link |
NOTE: Schmalkalden only completed tasks on a fixed task board and did not randomize the position prior to trial start.
Electronic Task boards were designed and produced for the teams as part of their participation the competition. The design of the task board is made open-source to enable community members to build their own task boards or create new versions for their specific use case. Please send an email to peter@modularmotions.com if you would like a pre-assembled task board for a specific competition year, i.e. TBv2021, TBv2022, TBv2023, TBv2025.
Please cite our work published in IEEE-RAM if you use any content from this page. You can view an early release of the full paper on IEEE Xplore.
Bibtex
@ARTICLE{10378967,
author={So, Peter and Sarabakha, Andriy and Wu, Fan and Culha, Utku and Abu-Dakka, Fares J. and Haddadin, Sami},
journal={IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine},
title={Digital Robot Judge: Building a Task-centric Performance Database of Real-World Manipulation With Electronic Task Boards},
year={2023},
volume={},
number={},
pages={2-14},
doi={10.1109/MRA.2023.3336473}}
}