List of hackathons about robotics in 2017

Designers, developers, and AI enthusiasts in and around Milton Keynes! Festive Road -- the Milton Keynes based art foundation -- invites you to participate in the MK Hackathon 2017. You'll be challenged to design and prototype an innovative tool -- front or back-end -- that will help simplify the searching and classification of photos.

Hackers in San Francisco and the Bay Area! If you're into messaging bots and voice-interactive technologies, then Dashbot invites you to sign up for the Hackathon: Bot or Not. You'll be challenged to build a messaging bot on Teams or Facebook, or build a Skill on Alexa. Collaborate on a team of 3-5 like-minded techies and build your project and integrate it with Dashbot analytics. Compete for the recognition and the chance to win some awesome prizes.

High school students in the New England area! You're invited to sign up to participate in hackNEHS -- Hack New England High Schools. At this day-long hackathon event, you'll get to develop cool ideas, meet other high school techies, and get hands-on experience with app development, web development, and idea generation.

Fintech developers, ideators, coders, and designers! Startupbootcamp InsurTech London invites you to participate in the InsurTech Hackathon. The theme of this 48-hour event is Customer Driven Claim Processing using AI and Robotics. You'll be challenged to collaborate to design and prototype an innovative solution for the insurance industry.

Developers, makers, and designers in and around Chicago! BuiltWorlds invites you to sign up to participate in BuiltWorlds Hackathon 2017. You'll be challenged to collaborate to use the cutting-edge technologies to create innovative solutions to key AEC industry problems. Your team will have 21 hours to design and prototype your solution to a designated challenge. You'll compete for cash and other prizes for the best entries in Challenges for Software, Maker (hardware or robotics), or Design.

Hackers in and around the greater Boston area! The Harvard Innovation Labs invite you to participate in HackLab: Halite AI Game Night. You'll be challenged to use the coding language of your choice to build a game bot that can defeat all-comers! If your bot is the winner, you'll be off to New York for the next round in the competition -- all expenses paid!

Robotics techie enthusiasts in Belgium! Are you planning to participate in the InQbet Robotics and AI Hackathon? If so, then you're invited to attend the Hackathon kick-off at the Procter & Gamble in Brussels. You'll learn about the current and future state of robotics from leading experts in the field. Partner companies will also explain their challenges and answer any questions you may have. You'll learn about the logistics and support for the hackathon. Finally, you'll get the chance to network with experts from partner companies and with other attendees.

Robotics techie enthusiasts in Belgium, the United States, and Singapore! You're invited to participate in the InQbet Robotics and AI Hackathon. In this 4-week hackathon, you'll be challenged to design and build a viable prototype in one of the following areas: Bots for consumers, Bots in laboratories, Bots in production processes and Bots in logistics. You can register as a team or join a team at the kickoff. This is an international event -- you can participate at home, or in one of three locations in Brussels, Singapore, or Newark, NJ.

Coders and hackers in Romania! DevTalks Romania invites you to participate in the DevHacks 2017 Hackathon. You'll have 24 hours to build something useful addressing one of the following categories: Women in Technology, Video & Audio Hack, Web, Mobile, Big Data, AI & IoT & Robotics, Security, and DevOps. You'll work in a team and one of your team must learn a new language at the event.

Hackers in and around Rotterdam! The Het Nieuwe Instituut invites you to participate in Thursday Night Live! Bot Club: Decolonising Bots. You'll hear presentations about how bots and other algorithmic agents are skewed towards Caucasians. Following the programme, you can participate in a hackathon on how to conceive bots or algorithmic agents that can identify non-white faces as readily as white faces.