Call for Participants

Are you interested in designing robots with ethics in mind?

We are calling all roboticists, philosophers, designers, and engineers!

Join the 2023 ICRA Roboethics Competition to contribute to the frontier of robot ethics research and for a chance to win cash prizes! 

You don’t need to be a roboticist/programmer or travel to ICRA 2023 to participate.

 

Why is this important?

Robot ethics poses some of the greatest challenges in interactive robot designs. In many cases, humans navigate ethical and social situations with ease, whereas it may be much more difficult for a robot. For example, if a diabetic elderly care home resident with dementia asks the robot for a candy bar, what should the robot be programmed to do? This competition will challenge you to think about ethics as concrete design considerations to be implemented as interactive robot behaviors.

 

What you'll do as a participant (or participating team):

Participating teams can choose to participate in one or both (ethics challenge & hackathon) components of the competition.

 

Timeline

 

How will we communicate?


Call for Ethics Challenge Participants


How the submissions will be evaluated?


The Ethics Challenge submissions will be scored on generalizability, creativity and effectiveness of the proposed solution.

 

Prizes

1st place winner will be awarded a $1000 CAD cash prize, 2nd place winner will be awarded a $500 CAD cash prize, and the 3rd place winner will be awarded a $250 CAD cash prize!

These prizes will be awarded based on the judges’ evaluation of the submissions.

 

 

Registration


Call for Hackathon Coders

The Hackathon will take place between May 24th – May 31st (but you’re encouraged to familiarize yourself with the Hackathon Code Framework available under the Hackathon page) in-person at ICRA 2023 (London, UK) and online. 

The context for the hackathon is available on our website already so that you can be better prepared. Software libraries/competition API are also available on the Hackathon page. Processing is the environment we will be using to evaluate your submissions.

 

Minimum criteria for valid submission


How the submissions will be evaluated

All valid submissions will be evaluated based on their generalizability (30%), correspondence (30%), ingenuity (30%), and demo quality (10%). A more detailed description of what each of the criteria means is outlined here.


Prizes

Three cash prizes will be awarded to the three top winners!

1st place winner will be awarded a $1000 CAD cash prize, 2nd place winner will be awarded a $500 CAD cash prize, and the 3rd place winner will be awarded a $250 CAD cash prize!

These prizes will be awarded based on the judges’ evaluation of the submissions.

 

Registration & Participation

Sign up to participate

Interested in participating, or learning more about the competition? Sign up here to get the latest information about the competition, and to let us know how you'd like to participate. We will communicate any updates and new information about the competition via the mailing list linked to the sign-up forms as well as the website.