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> Nobody in their right mind should sign up for these contests, and it pains me to see intelligent people duped into it for "the exposure". This attitude disa
by IanCal 11y ago
> Nobody in their right mind should sign up for these contests, and it pains me to see intelligent people duped into it for "the exposure".
This attitude disappoints me greatly.
The team that won was the robotics research unit at the Technical University of Berlin: https://www.robotics.tu-berlin.de https://www.robotics.tu-berlin.de, second place was MIT.
I hardly think they were "duped" into competing.
These people do research. Having a specified task that multiple teams "compete" on is there just to give a good comparison of the different approaches, otherwise everyone is picking their own tasks and it's hard to see what benefits / cons each system has.
What next, complaining that researchers publish open access papers for "the exposure" rather than selling the ideas?
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Here's a list of the teams: http://amazonpickingchallenge.org/teams.shtml http://amazonpickingchallenge.org/teams.shtml
- saosebastiao 11y agoI have no problem with competition nor open research, which is probably how the researchers viewed this competition. My problem was how strikingly small the reward was for custom tailoring months of their efforts and research towards helping a single company eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs and save billions of dollars. The top prize wasn't even enough budget for a lab assistant for a year! It sounds more like an evil plot from a sinister villain than it does an interesting research opportunity. If you want to do interesting research, don't let multinational companies with obvious agendas tell you what is interesting unless they are also willing to share the reward that they get from your hard work.