[KwartzLab] Fwd: Cloud Robotics Hackathon

[Mark Pitcher]

Alan's always hounding me to make an "evil robot". Personally I'm
interested in making a net-connected telepresence robot (either evil or
maybe just bad-mannered). Having stuff to mess with would be cool...



On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Chris Bruner <cbruner at quadro.net> wrote:

> This is robotshops way of getting some publicity about their new robot
> cloud thingy. Which if I understand correctly is basically a database of
> robots and types, and possibly some online inputs/outputs from the robots
> at various times.
>
> I like the idea of this compition and am interested in participating. We
> need to submit an idea for a robot by Feb 18, and we will receive some
> parts to help with the hackathon.  Very cool.
>
> Some ideas I've had for this competition are for social interaction at
> parties or meetings:
> 1. popcorn flinger. (Throw popcorn or pingpong balls at unsuspecting
> people, just for the fun of it).
> 2. Individualized people Fetcher.  Think of a dog, Jill says "Go see Sam",
> Sam says "Go see Fred", Fred says "Go see Jill", Robot runs around between
> people, possibly bringing messages or beer.
> 3. Singing robot.... Sings in a high warbally voice and follows one random
> individual around, tracking by their shoes.
>
> Anyone interested?
>
>
>
>
> On 2/10/2012 1:39 PM, Darcy Casselman wrote:
>
>> This may be of interest...
>>
>> We were contacted by a group in Montreal hosting a robotics hackathon.
>>  They're looking to expand with teams all over the world, and are
>> offering free robot kits (regularly $90) to participating teams.  Not
>> sure what the catch is, but if you're interested in running something
>> like this, maybe you can get in touch with them and find out. :)
>>
>> Darcy.
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>> Name Sara -Robotics Hackathon
>> Email sara_ahmadian at yahoo.com
>> Message Hello,
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>> Allow me to introduce you to the The Cloud Robotics Hackathon to be
>> held on March 2nd to March 4th 2012 at Notman House.
>>
>> The Cloud Robotics Hackathon aims to catalyse the creative process and
>> bring roboticists, programmers, and hackers to produce social robotic
>> applications that use collaboration between machines through
>> cloud-computing, and natural interaction with humans in order to reach
>> useful goals. The mains instance of the Hackathon will be held in
>> Montreal, and teams around the world are invited to hack as well at on
>> the same day under the same rules.
>>
>> We will send FREE robots to each team around the world before the
>> event. However, You have to contact us as soon as possible to ask for
>> equipment.
>>
>> We will award many prizes to different team such as 1000$ Grand prize
>> and robotshop gift cards.
>>
>>
>> For more information, please visit our website :
>> www.RoboticsHackathon.com
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sara Ahmadian, Organizer
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