List of hackathons about robotics in 2017

Developers, designers, and AI enthusiasts! TrueFace.ai invites you to sign up to participate in the TrueFace.Ai Facial Recognition Hackathon. You don't have to actually be in San Francisco! You can attend in person, or participate from anywhere in the world! Your challenge will be to use Trueface.ai's face recognition technology portfolio to do something awesome! For example, you could create an app to take classroom attendance, or measure whether a person is drunk! It's your choice. Be creative and compete for prizes!

Teenage techies in the UK! Acorn Aspirations invites you to participate in #ACORNACCELERATOR2017 -- a 2-week accelerator, where you'll be challenged to create an innovative technical solution to a social problem that you find in your local community and communities around the world. You'll get to use tools and techniques like artificial intelligence, and virtual reality to help address problems such as depression, anxiety, stress, phobias and more. At the end of the accelerator, Acorn Aspirations invites your friends and the general public to the #AcornAccelerator2017 DEMO DAY, as you and your fellow participants demo your projects before a panel of judges.

Are you interested in Artificial Intelligence? Want to find ways of using AI to promote social justice? You're invited to sign up to participate in the Hackathon - Prototyping Artificial Intelligence for Social Justice. You don't need experience of hackathons or of AI to be part of this event. You'll be challenged to come up with innovative ways of addressing bias, in order to embed social justice values in AI-based products and services.

VR/AR hackers in and around Austin, Texas! Come and participate in the #ExpeditionHacks Hackathon Series: Austin 2017. You'll be challenged to create your own innovative visualization of how technology will change the future of conflict by the year 2030. This is your chance to showcase your skills and to compete with the best-of-the-best AR/VR experts in the area! Show up and be noticed!

Coders, designers, hackers, techies in and around Toronto! Do you have a yen to create something that's terrific, but has absolutely no value at all? Little Dada invites you to participate in the Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon Toronto 2.0. So sign up today and build something awesomely valueless!

Hackers in the UK! Are you interested in artificial intelligence and its application to politics? If you have experience in any of the following -- politics, data analytics, machine-learning, software development, or UX/UI/graphic design, then The Fourth Group invites you to participate in the Politician AI Hackathon. You'll be challenged to conceive and develop innovative ways to automate tasks that politicians are expected to do, such as understanding voters’ preferences; writing speeches; making strategic decisions in regards to policy proposals, and; addressing problems faced by constituents.

Start-ups, hackers, AI enthusiasts! Think you have an AI project that's a winner? You're invited to participate in the AI Hackademy! If your project is selected, you could follow-on coaching and mentoring to help take your solution to the next level. Ideally, your project will include at least one Microsoft technology and fit into one of the following categories: →AI @Home →AI @Work →AI @project citizen

Data scientists, coders, business thinkers, designers, creative types have participated in the MCreate 2017 – Connected & Autonomous Vehicle Hackathon, where they were faced with five connected and autonomous vehicle challenges! If you're interested in connected and autonomous vehicles, Transport Systems Catapult invites you to attend the Showcase Final, where the top three teams from the hackathon will pitch their final project solution for the chance to win great prizes including £2,000 in cash.

AI enthusiasts! If you're planning to attend MobileBeat 2017, then VentureBeat and BeMyApp invite you to sign up to participate in an AI Hackathon. Use any technology, tools, libraries, etc. that you choose and create an innovative AI project. For example, you could build your own personal assistant for work, or use facial recognition models to know who's lying or not, or maybe do something cool with emotion analysis! It's up to you!

Developers, designers, makers, and other entrepreneurial types in the Bay Area. If you're passionate about mobility tech, then STARTUP DRIVE: San Francisco 2017 is the event for you! If you've got ideas for new and innovative mobility products or services, then come and turn them into reality at this event.