Amazon will hold its third annual Robotics Challenge in July in Japan, with 16 teams of finalists from schools including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton and Carnegie Mellon University, CNBC reported Wednesday. Other competitors from around the world will also participate.
Whichever team succeeds in crafting a robot able to recognize objects, execute tasks, detect errors, recover as needed and grab objects will win the $250,000 prize. Scoring is based on the number of items successfully picked and stowed within a set time frame.
