List of hackathons about robotics in 2017

Novice developers! Interested in virtual reality development? VRMag.cz & AVAST invite you to sign up and participate in the VR Hackathon. This will be your opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes view of development for virtual and augmented reality. You'll be challenged to create a fabulous AR/VR app.

NUS students, prospective students, alumni and researchers! Your invited to participate in the NUS EdTech Challenge. You'll be challenged to conceive and prototype an innovative EdTech solution using cutting edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence, cloud and mobile computing, augmented and virtual reality. You'll collaborate in a team to create and present your working prototype by the end of the two day event.

Hackers, designers in Belgium! Get ready for Hack Belgium with the pre-event workshops. You'll get the chance to explore the newest disruptive technologies, and decide how you can use them to tackle one of the 20 challenges at Hack Belgium. You'll hear from experts from Belgium’s top universities, research institutes, and fab labs. They'll share the latest developments in areas such as advanced materials, artificial intelligence, genomics, robotics, energy storage, Internet-of-Things, additive manufacturing, virtual & augmented reality, renewable energy technology, blockchains, and drones.

Monthly Music Hackathon NYC has decided to expand its horizon and host the first ever Music Hackathon Bulgaria! During this hackathon teams will develop mobile applications for music, technology and robots for music and also will use existing technology to create innovative and inspiring projects related to music. The goal is to use either software, robotics, or your own specialty to create a visualization of music or to integrate technology in a new way, so that it may create its own music.

42 school students! Interested in man-machine interfaces? Eli Lilly and Danone invite you to participate in the Hack the UI hackathon. You'll meet and collaborate with like-minded individuals to use chatbots to reinvent the man-machine interface in industrial settings. you'll have plenty of scope for innovation — task automation, personalization of machines, maintenance notifications, and much more. Collaborate and compete to be one of the three top projects and win an awesome prize, as well as the chance for a coaching and mentoring program to help turn your project into a going concern!

Are you interested in happiness? Digital Catapult invites technical professionals from disciplines such as machine learning, data science, design and software engineering to participate in the Hacking Happiness hackathon. You'll be challenged to collaborate with like-minded individuals to conceive and prototype innovative solutions that address happiness. You have a choice of challenges on measuring, understanding, predicting and increasing happiness: 1.Quantified happiness: Using personal, geographic, social and environmental data sets. 2.Augmented happiness: Using wearables or sensors. 3.Interactive happiness: Using novel human-AI collaborations and interactions.

Coders, designers and BOT enthusiasts in and around Mumbai! CometChat challenges you to come and showcase your creativity and hacking credentials at the Botathon. Show that you can contribute to the AI revolution! You will be part of Mumbai's first hackathon dedicated to messaging bots & artificial intelligence. Collaborate with the best-of-the-best AI techies, using the Bots.co platform to create your bot! Maybe your project will win a prize for being the most innovative Bot!

Student hackers in and around Mumbai! Come and sign up for the CSIMumbai TechNext hackathon. Sign up with your hacker team and be challenged to create an innovative solution to one of a number of challenges, based on either Cognitive Services (Artificial Intelligence) or to Internet of Things (IoT). The challenges will be mentored by Microsoft senior engineers.

Students at the University of South Florida and surrounding schools! Manufacturing firm Jabil Circuit, Inc. invites you to participate in the Jabil Hackathon 2017 "ChatBots Assisting in the Manufacturing World". You'll be challenged to design and create chatbots for use in the manufacturing sector. Your chatbots will act like a knowledge base, or intelligent assistant for factory and shop floor operators.

Entrepreneurs, hardware types, designers, developers! Are you passionate about the auto industry? Got an idea you want to test drive? Think that you can come up with something awesome? Come on and sign up for STARTUP DRIVE: Detroit! You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals to come up with a new auto startup company in just a couple of days. With STARTUP DRIVE, the sky's the limit — connected vehicles, mobility technology, autonomous driving...even rocket engines!