List of hackathons about robotics in 2016

TADHack and and Universidad ORT Uruguay are partnering up for a mini hackathon in the city of Montevideo. All universities and local developer are invited to participate. The event will run in Spanish, with some English translation, and pitches can be Spanish or English. This event aims to unleash the creativity and engineering excellence of Uruguay through telecom application development.

Hackingfest is a hackathon series for software, hardware developers and designers to come and participate in a project to improve life. There will be seminars and conferences held to become familiar with the issues and technologies so you can get the opportunity to develop projects with the hackingfest technologies. At the end of the event, applications will be evaluated by the jury, you can start your project before the hackathon, but if you did, please inform the event organizers about the status of your project while participating in the event. Participants are free to use any technology they want to use in their applications. 24 hours drinks and food will be provided free to participants. All you need to bring is your own laptop.

The Halifax hackathon is the next hackathon ever since the Global Game Jam in January, and this time it will be open to anything: hardware, software, games, etc. In other words, if you can hack it, you can make it! The main aim of this event is for you to make something awesome, meet fellow developers, designers, techies, and startupers in Halifax, show off what you made and win amazing prizes!

This is a hackathon where teams of designers, developers, tinkerers and thinkers are invited to get together and build something from start to finish in just 24 hours. You are free to create any technology you like including apps, software or physical products. At the end of the weekend, teams will be asked to pitch their ideas and completed products to a panel of notable judges. There will be a cash prize for overall winner.

At this Hackathon developers will have approximately 24 hours to turn their ideas into applications using their own programming skills and design, working in teams of 4 people, with the support of experts. Teams will be free to use any programming language in order to develop applications that improve the community. What you will need is your laptop with charger, cell phone charger, gadgets, blanket or sleeping bag for the night, personal cleaning articles. The event is completely free of charge and anyone who has the skills to develop software (students, programmers, freelancers and anyone who knows develop code) is welcome!

This is the second edition of Space Apps Lyon together with NASA's international innovation. Participants will meet, sympathize and form teams to solve real problems of humanity on earth and in space. There will be more than 10 000 participants in 160 cities in the world! Space Apps will take place over one whole weekend to produce solutions for challenges provided by NASA themselves! The event is mainly aimed for developers, but is open to everyone regardless of their skills! Access to a mobile FabLab will be offered and meals are included. The six different themes offered by NASA include: Earth, aerospace, solar system, space station, travel to Mars and technology.

SkyWatch hosting the NASA International Space Apps Challenge for the Waterloo Region. This hackathon will attract Waterloo’s top tech and non-technical talent including: developers, makers, citizen scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs who will be asked to work non-stop for 48 hours to address NASA-designed challenges. The two winning solutions from the Waterloo challenge will move on to compete with other winners from across the globe, to be judged by the NASA International Space Apps Challenge team. This year’s event will include the unveiling of Canada’s first ever accelerator focused on space startups. The Canadian space industry will make this program become a reality right in the Waterloo district. More details will be reveal at the event.

This is the premier hackathon of North Texas. Join this event for an unforgettable experience creating new things alongside 2,000 of the best designers, developers, and creators in the world. All types of participants welcome and students are free!

This mini-hackathon will focus on WebRTC. You will be able to mash-up with other capabilities such as Internet of Things (drones), Artificial Intelligence (Watson and Amazon Alexa), Messaging (Slack), and lots more. Developers get access to the WebRTC Global Summit and the TADHack-mini London winners and runners up pitch at the WebRTC Global Summit for even greater exposure.

This is a hackathon which will take place at the Harvard Innovation Lab at Harvard Business School inviting all entrepreneurs, doctors, law makers, engineers, political specialists, data scientists, managers, students, professionals, and space-fans to come along and address practical issues that arise from space exploration. Hack solutions to biomedical, social, policy and investment challenges to people prospering in deep space.