The Amazon Picking Challenge

The APC's focus is on one core -- but extremely important -- area of robotic competency: manipulating objects in the world. The competition scenario was a Kivalike warehouse in which the robot had 20 minutes to pick items off a shelf and put them into a plastic tote. The 12 bins on the shelf were stocked with 25 products that posed a range of perception or manipulation challenges. Each bin had one target item. A robot received a base score of 10 points for successfully picking the target item, with bonus points for cluttered bins or difficult items.