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Re:Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses by Symmetry on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:17PM (#14931213)
If you think you've got a really good solution for robotics grasping you shouldn't be competing in the Amazon Picking Challenge given the IP terms. We (Righthand Robotics) think we've got a handle on the problem but didn't want to get involved for that reason. There are some other companies out there with interesting solutions who weren't involved either.

EDIT: Pun retroactively intended.

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Re:Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses by amelius on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:27PM (#14931942)
> you shouldn't be competing in the Amazon Picking Challenge given the IP terms.

This makes me wonder. Why did people compete for the Netflix prize, [1]? Were those IP terms better?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize

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Re:Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses by robotresearcher on Friday August 04, 2017 @05:45PM (#14932588)
The cost of participation is totally different. Physical robot vs. pure software.
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Re:Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses by Symmetry on Friday August 04, 2017 @05:09PM (#14932291)
People are competing in the Amazon Picking Challenge too! But the picking prize is just $50,000. If it were $1,000,000 like the Netflix prize I'm sure there would be more competition.
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Re:Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses by mattnewton on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:43PM (#14932075)
Probably has to do with the different nature of the industries: robots versus software
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