List of hackathons about robotics in 2016

The Hack the Planet! Hardware hackathon presented by AWS + Intel is a weekend where hackers come together to try to better our planet through technology. Free hardware may be acquired by submitting a project stub on hackster explaining how you plan on using the hardware and what exactly you need. join the channel #hack4theplanet on slack.hackster.io to chat with other hackathon participants about teams and ideas.

AI hackers! Are you competitive and do you like programming and artificial intelligence? Think you can build a winning, unbeatable robot? Then The Ultimate RoboCode Tournament is the event for you! Participate and demonstrate your creativity and technical expertise! You can work alone, but ideally, you will collaborate with one or more like-minded techie in teams of 2 to 3.

VR and AR hackers! Are you interested in graphics, 3D modelling, film, education, sound design, or game design? Come and participate in Immersive Hack: Sydney—the first Augmented and Virtual Reality Hackathon. Come and learn about VR & AR immersive technologies and get hands-on experience with AR/VR design and development. Come and collaborate to conceptualise or prototype your own AR/VR idea!

Developers, designers, project managers, and other technologists or creative types! Are you a fan of virtual and augmented reality? Come on down and participate in the Immersive Tech NI Hackathon and Launch Party! Work individually, or collaborate with a team, to design and build an idea around Immersive Technology in Education. Work with the most creative minds in Northern Ireland to explore and expand the possibilities created by immersive technologies, including virtual and augmented reality.

IoT hackers in and around Austin, Texas! Capital Factory invites you to sign up for the Intel® Joule™ Platform Hackathon. You'll have the opportunity to build your own amazing project — a location-aware robot, a controller-less drone or a VR headset — using the the Intel® Joule™ development kit. Whatever your project is, come along and turn your idea into a working prototype with the Intel Joule.

A one-day event where participants conceptualize and create projects that have no value whatsoever.

Yeshiva University students! Sign up for Invent:YU Israel, a 24-hour hackathon where you'll team up to turn your ideas into tangible products. Build anything from apps and websites to robots and drones to win prizes. This year's hackathon is in collaboration with the YU Tamid Group and YU Israel Club. The hackathon will include a tech fair of Israeli startup companies, where you will learn more about Israel's tech community.

Hackers! Come to Munich and participate in "Hack in October". You'll be able to collaborate on projects related to Big Data, Process Mining, Data Visualization, Data Science and Machine Learning. The winning team will receive super cool drones as prizes!

Interested in how the Sharing Economy applies to Insurance? Come and participate in the InsurTech Hackathon. Apply your skills and creativity to show how an insurance business model can be based on trust, authenticity, and transparency. Collaborate with like-minded hackers to use technologies like chatbots, drones, VR/AR, or AI/machine learning to create solutions to challenges posed by Insurtech's corporate insurance sponsors.

Join hundreds of other programmers, developers, and business minds at the Tech Crunch Beijing Hackathon, followed by two days of talks and panels by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, startups, and professionals from various fields as they discuss the newest topics in the tech industry including robotics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and more!