Robotics Innovation Challenge (RIC) - 2021
Competitions
Introduction
In the Grand Arena (GA), robots from the participating teams will play the role of drug R transporters and embark on a journey to help patients infected with COVID-19. Along the way, the transporter will need to pick up drug particles, navigate through a hostile environment and eventually deliver the drug particles to the infected lung tissues precisely and promptly.
Participants will be inspired by the introduction of the drug delivery process and be required to apply their robotics and programming knowledge to accomplish challenging objectives for each task.
Participants
Each team should consist of 1-3 student members.
Junior Category: All the team members must be 8-12 years old (born between 2009.1.1 and 2013.12.31).
Open Category: All the team members must be 8-15 years old (born between 2006.1.1 and 2013.12.31) or Sec 4 students (in Singapore).
Prize
1st Place：S$ 400 + NVIDIA Jetson Nano kit
2nd Place：S$ 300 + NVIDIA Jetson Nano kit
3rd Place：S$ 200
4th Place：S$ 100
Introduction
In the Technical Competitions (TC), the same robots used for GA can choose to participate in up to 3 different challenges, which require more sophisticated actions to be performed and push their limits to the whole new level. Each team can only participate once in each challenge.
TC 1 and TC 2 are task-based and will be scored according to the scoring metrics, while TC 3 sets the battlefield for sumo and the winner is decided by single elimination rounds.
Participants
Each team should consist of 1-3 student members.
Junior Category: All the team members must be 8-12 years old (born between 2009.1.1 and 2013.12.31).
Open Category: All the team members must be 8-15 years old (born between 2006.1.1 and 2013.12.31) or Sec 4 students (in Singapore).
Prize
Introduction
Innovation Design Challenge (IDC) aims to challenge the level of creativity and hands-on ability of the participating teams. It requires participants to design and build a robot in approximately 4 months according to a predetermined theme each year.
The theme of this year’s IDC is “Healthcare with Robotics”. Participants are expected to design a robot that can directly or indirectly provide assistance to various healthcare scenarios. Examples of healthcare scenarios include ambulance services, emergency care, inpatient care, surgeries, intensive care, home and community care etc.
Participants
Each team should consist of 1-2 student members.
Junior Category: All the team members must be 8-12 years old (born between 2009.1.1 and 2013.12.31).
Open Category: All the team members must be 8-15 years old (born between 2006.1.1 and 2013.12.31) or Sec 4 students (in Singapore).
Timeline (updated)
- Submission Deadline for Preliminary Stage: May 30th
- Preliminary Stage Result Release: June 15th
- Submission Deadline for Promotion Stage: July 15th
- Promotion Stage Result Release: July 30th
- Live competition for Final Stage: September 11th
Prize
First prize (2 teams) : S$ 400
Second prize (4 teams) : S$ 200
Third prize (6 teams) : S$ 100
