This competition aims to reduce the burden of employees by robot technology and realize a future convenience store that provides new services to customers. Participants compete on the following two tasks. The participant who will participate either one of two tasks are also welcome.
- Stock and Disposal Tasks
Self-stocking of daily products (onigiri rice ball and bento lunch boxes, etc.) and disposing expired products. - Convenience Store Innovation Task
Proposals and demonstrations of solutions and services that use digital twins and big data to create the convenience store of the future.
Participants in this competition will develop a robot system that autonomously moves and performs these tasks, as well as the infrastructure they deem necessary to install inside the convenience store. In this challenge, the participants will use their developed robots and infrastructure to demonstrate and compete in these tasks inside a simulated convenience store.
Schedule
November 11 – 15, 2024 (including setup and practice day)
Venue
INTEX OSAKA
Prize (tentative)
*For each task
1st place 300,000 JPY
2nd place 150,000 JPY
3rd place 50,000 JPY
Important Dates
Mar. 19, 2024 Briefing for participants
Mar. 20, 2024 Entry start (Entry form is here)Jul. 19, 2024 Entry deadline
Jul. 22, 2024 Briefing for participants
Jul. 31, 2024 Entry deadline
Aug. 19, 2024 Deadline for submission of detailed documents
(Format: Stock and Disposal Task, Innovation Task)
Sep. 9, 2024 Notification of acceptance
How to participate
Please fill out the entry form (click here) and submit it online.
Rule Book
Stock and Disposal Tasks (Last update: July 1. 2024)
Convenience Store Innovation Task (Last update: June 18. 2024)
Contact
fcsc-info-ml[at]ml.tmu.ac.jp
