Delft robot wins Amazon Picking Challenge 2016

A team of engineers from Delft has won the Amazon Picking Challenge 2016. Team Delft, a cooperation between the TU Delft Robotics Institute and the SME Delft Robotics, won the two separate picking and stowing finals during the RoboCup 2016 event that took place from 29 June - 3 July in Leipzig (Germany).
The challenge was divided into two separate finals: during the ‘stow task’ the robots, equipped with grippers, had to autonomously retrieve a wide range of products from a container and put them on the shelves. With the ‘pick task’, it was the other way around: the robot had to retrieve items from the shelves and put them in a container. This was the first time the Delft team participated.
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