List of hackathons about robotics in 2017

This April 21st, 22nd and 23rd, Northern Virginia Community College will be hosting its very own Hackathon: 2017 Innovation Hackathon! This 36 hour period will be filled with tech talks, programming, cyber security practice, food, fun and cutting edge creation. The focus of this event will be on secure coding to advocate for a more secure cyberspace and showcase the importance of cyber security to organizations, companies, and everyone else. Do not be intimidated, there are talks and challenges for every level of skill from beginner to advanced. This is a great opportunity to gain experience and learn about the booming computer science and information technology industries. Learn from working together with knowledgeable individuals, hands-on experience, and promoting cyber security through secure coding. Please bring your own rig (laptop,desktop etc), a sleeping bag (if you plan to stay overnight) and a positive attitude! Please email novahackathon@gmail.com with any questions or concerns. With only 350 spaces and free registration, spaces will fill up fast!

AI enthusiasts! If you're planning to attend AISB 2017 -- or even if you're not -- you're invited to participate in the AI Systems for Society Tutorial & Hackathon. This event will run alongside the conference. You'll get the opportunity to sit in on tutorials and them to test drive software and write AI code. The theme of the tutorials is ‘building Artificially Intelligent (AI) systems to work within society’.

Developers, designers and data scientists in the Bay Area! CMU Emirates Innovation Lab invites you to participate in the Emirates Travel Hackathon. In this 24-hour coding marathon, you will be challenged to build innovative new travel-centric web and mobile apps. This year's theme is ‘inspiring insights and personalized customer experiences with data, machine learning, and AI’.

Robotics enthusiasts and hackers in Rwanda! You're invited to sign up to participate in the GLOBHE Drone Hackathon Series - #1. You'll be challenged to conceive and prototype solutions that can help develop sustainable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery systems that can bring emergency medical supplies and diagnostics systems to patients in remote and inaccessible areas. The first hackathon will focus on solutions for "last mile delivery."

Programmers, IoT specialists, machine learning enthusiasts, designers -- in and around Girona, Spain! You're invited to sign up to participate in the Hackathon Girona 2017. You'll get to meet and collaborate with like-minded techies to design and prototype a personal assistant! Mark Zuckerberg did this with Jarvis in 100 hours. Your Girona challenge will be to do it in only 24?

Founders, engineers, scientists, business hackers, or students! OneTraction invites you to sign up to participate in the Artificial Intelligence - Global Hackathon. The focus of this innovation event is artificial intelligence. Sign up as a team, or join one at the event.

Law and informatics students from the University of Edinburgh! Edinburgh Law Connections invites you to participate in the Law and Artificial Intelligence Hackathon and Panel Discussion. You'll hear guest speakers discuss how legal profession is being impacted by artificial intelligence. You'll then collaborate as one of a team of four to develop a tech solution that addresses challenges faced by the legal profession.

Hackers in and around Edinburgh! CompSoc Edinburgh -- The University of Edinburgh Artificial Intelligence and Computing Society -- invites you to participate in Hack the Burgh 2017. You'll be expected to bring your best coding skills, ideas, and enthusiasm, and compete with the best-of-the-best of Edinburgh's AI and computing enthusiasts!

Artificial intelligence and virtual reality enthusiasts! Realities Centre invites you to sign up to participate in the AI+VR Rise Hackathon. You'll be faced with some of the trickiest problems in AI/VR -- building a smart avatar for VR games, enhancing VR/MR simulations using deep learning, SpatialOS, and computer vision, or deigning and building the best AI/VR app in a short 24 hours. You'll have access to leading experts to mentor you in both AI and VR, and there'll be pre-trained smartbots, data sets and VR headsets, courtesy of event partners.

Hackers in and around Rahmania, Algeria! Xmedia invites you to signup to participate in the Messenger Challenge - Algeria Bot Party. This is the first such Facebook Messenger Bot Party to be held in Algeria! You'll learn how to create a Bot for Facebook Messenger and then you'll be entered into the Bots for Messenger Challenge! Compete with your peers in front of a jury to be selected as one of the winners.