Earth Rover

Human gamer teams compete with AI teams to advance autonomous navigation. 

Human gamer teams compete with AI teams to advance autonomous navigation. 

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Prize: up to $1m

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Challenge overview

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Human gamer teams compete with AI teams in an ongoing urban navigation challenge to advance Embodied AI. In this challenge, gamers and AIs will compete in two phases navigating “in-the-wild” GPS goal-oriented scenarios. 

In the first phase, competitors will navigate in a seen environment driving across the Bay Area (from UC Berkeley campus to Stanford University campus). This will be repeated regularly until a winning AI model is finally able to beat human benchmarks on the same task.

In the second phase, similar navigation challenges will be conducted except that this will be done in unseen environments in various cities around the world.

Co-organizers

Researchers from Google DeepMind and academia (NUS, NYU, GMU, Princeton, etc.), FrodoBots Lab

prize

Up to $1m

Up to $1M USD will be available for impressive feats in mobile manipulation via the IKEA Furniture Assembly Grand Challenge, with $100k available for the first phase.

entry requirements

All considered

Teams and researchers of all levels are encouraged to participate in the Challenge, from hobbyist roboticists to research organizations. Prizes are awarded on merit and results, not team pedigree.

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