Announcement 

We are planning the next RGMC edition to be held in Seoul, South Korea, in conjunction with the 2027 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2027) between 24 and 27 May 2027. 

The 12th RGMC edition will include 5 competition tracks:

• Picking in Clutter: teams will be challenged to design solutions that, given a set of known and unknown objects placed randomly within a clear box, will enable a robotic arm to pick and place each object into a second clear box within a maximum allowed time.

• Human-to-Robot Handover: teams will be challenged to design solutions that enable a robot to estimate the physical properties of an object while handed over by a person. The robot then will need to complete the handover by safely and stably receiving the object and delivering it to a predefined location. 

• Cloud Robotics: teams will be challenged to develop robust manipulation solutions using remote access to the cloud robotics platform CloudGripper at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where a set of small robotic arm cells will be made available. 

• Mobile Manipulation: teams will be challenged to combine autonomous mobile docking and navigation, perception, and manipulation to perform a series of industrially-orientated tasks.

• Simulation-Sorting: undergraduate students and junior researchers will have the opportunity to get started with perception and robot control algorithms in a shared simulation environment aligned with the other competition tracks. Teams are tasked with sorting objects using a robotic arm equipped with a two-finger gripper, with progressively increasing difficulty in object poses, occlusions, and workspace constraints.

Expression of Interest

Are you interested in 

• sponsoring the competition?                                     Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/2L5wGAVPst51GgDeA 

• participating in the next edition of RGMC?               Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/Kmax5r4WYZaH2LWg6