
These were probably the most difficult scenarios since the European Robotics Hackathon (EnRicH) premiered in 2017: At the beginning of July, more than 120 robotics experts from all over Europe and Canada gathered at the never-operational Zwentendorf nuclear power plant near Vienna to test their ground robots and drones under realistic conditions at the 5th EnRicH. In the three main categories “Search & Rescue,” “Mapping,” and “Manipulation,” the organizing team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE had placed an emphasis on combined scenarios for driving and flying systems, which posed problems for many teams. Many – but not all.
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