Million Prize at International Robot Competition

Team NimbRo from the University of Bonn has won the grand prize at the finals of the ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition. Acting robot - Avater robot blindly explores a stone using haptics. XPRIZE Foundation The impression in connection with the service is free, while the image specified author is mentioned. Team NimbRo from the University of Bonn has won the grand prize of five million US dollars at the ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition in Long Beach (USA). The final of the competition, sponsored by the Japanese airline All Nippon Airways (ANA) and hosted by the XPRIZE Foundation, featured 17 teams from ten countries who were selected from 99 registered research groups in a multi-stage qualification process. With a total of ten million US dollars in prize money, the ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition was the most highly endowed robotics competition to date. The Bonn team had already fully convinced the international jury at the semifinals in Miami last September, where it scored the most points.