Table of Contents

Eligibility
Submission Requirements
Evaluation criteria
Popularity Competition
Final Score
How to Enter
Full Rules

Eligibility

You are eligible to enter if you meet the following requirements at time of entry:

You are at least 13 years of age
If you are 12 years or younger, you must receive a legal guardian's permission and have them complete Robociti’s Permission Form prior to submitting an entry into this competition. Send any requests for the Permission Form or any questions to contact@robociti.com.
You are not involved in the execution or administration of this competition.
You are not an immediate family member or household member of a Popular Robotics employee.

Submission Requirements

To be eligible for judging, you must meet ALL of the following requirements unless otherwise stated:

General Requirements

You must be a registered user of Robociti and join this competition as a participant.
Your entry must be your own original work.
Your entry will be posted as a Project submission in a special sub-category of the Community section of Robociti.
Your entry cannot have been selected as a winner in any other Robociti competition.
Your team is no more than 5 members per entry.^*

^*By entering a submission to this competition on behalf of a team, you acknowledge that you are the designated representative authorized to act on behalf of your team. (See full rules below for details)

Hardware/Software Build Requirements

Your project must be an AI/Robotics-based solution.
Your project must solve a problem related to the COVID-19 era challenges.
Your project can use different combinations of hardware and software, as long as they have been acquired according to a legal proprietary manner, with no violation of intellectual property laws.

Project Documentation Requirements

Your Project must include a project name, short project description, cover image, bill of materials (BOM), full instructions, images, and relevant resource files (code, CAD design). For more guidelines about a project submission, please refer to our Project Submission Guide.
Your project must be written in English.
Your project must be submitted by November 1, 2020 at 11:59PM GMT.

Evaluation Criteria

Your project will be evaluated by the judge committee according to the rubric below.

Project Documentation (15 points)
Story/Instructions - Show how you created your project, including images, screenshots, and/or a video demonstration of your solution working as intended. For your project introduction, make sure that it is presented in a way that a beginner could understand it and it is appealing to everyone that could benefit from it.
Complete BOM & Hardware Design (10 points)
Detail the hardware, software and/or tools used. Present the CAD/Solidworks (or others) drawing of your hardware, your circuit diagrams and/or take detailed photographs.
Code & Contribution (10 points)
Include working code with helpful comments in uploaded project files.
Usefulness and Creativity (15 points)
Make sure your project can actually be useful to a great number of users, with an impact that could really affect the everyday lives of people. Creative solutions that are innovative or bring a new take on existing solutions will get higher scores.

The full score from the Evaluation process is 50 points, which corresponds to the 50% of the Final Score of the competition.

Popularity Competition

Apart from the Evaluation by the judges, your project needs to appeal to everyday people and especially to people of the Robotics and AI community, if you wish to one day transform your project into a successful product or service that meets the needs of customers. That is why the result of this competition will be greatly affected by its popularity, using the “Likes” it receives on Robociti as a measure.

The score of the Popularity Competition of each Project is calculated based on the number of Likes it collects from the time of submission of the project until the end of the Popularity Competition which is on November 8, 2020 at 11:59PM GMT. The project with the most Likes will receive 50 points, and all other projects will receive points proportionally to the likes of the most popular project.

For example, if at the end of the Popularity Competition, the most popular project has collected 1400 Likes, that project will receive 50 points, a project with 700 Likes will receive 25 points and a project with X Likes will receive (X/1400)*50 points.

The full score from the Popularity Competition is 50 points, which corresponds to the 50% of the Final Score of the competition.

Final Score

The Evaluation score by the judge committee and the Popularity Competition score are combined to create the Project’s Final Score.

The full score of the Final Score is 100 points, and it is the sum of the Evaluation Score and the Popularity Competition Score.

Final Score = Evaluation Score + Popularity Competition Score

How to Enter

Step 1: Register for the Competition

Start by creating a free account on Robociti.com (or sign-in if already a member).
Register for the competition by clicking "Join Competition".

Step 2: Build and Document Your Project

Build your project according to the submission requirements.
Document your project build using Robociti’s project template. To create a new project, click “Submit Your Project” on the competition page.

Step 3: Review and Submit your Project

Review your project and make sure it meets all the submission requirements.
Make sure to enable the "Publish" option and upload your project files on the 3rd step of your project editor, and submit on or before November 1, 2020 at 11:59PM GMT.

Step 4: Promote your Project to the Community

After you have submitted your Project, promote it on the competition discussion forum, and the Robociti Community to get Likes and get more points in the Popularity Competition.
Share your Project on social media with your contacts and your peers to gain more traction and invite them to Like your Project on Robociti. To share your project, use the Social Media share buttons on your project page.
Likes that will be calculated for the Project Popularity Competition can be collected until November 8, 2020 at 11:59PM GMT.

Full Rules

Click here to see competition full rules

Common terms used in these rules

These are the full rules that govern how the competition is run. In these rules, “we,” “our”, and “us” refer to Robociti and/or the competition host. “You” and “yourself” refer to an eligible competition participant. The full rules also include all above eligibility, requirements, and judging criteria recorded in the "Rules" tab of this competition page.

Competition Description

This is a skill-based and popularity-based competition brought to you by Robociti. The object of this competition is to create projects using different types of hardware and software based on Robotics and AI technologies to face the problems described in the Overview of the competition. For the purposes of this competition, each project you submit in the competition will be called an “entry”. All eligible entries received will be judged using the judging criteria above to determine the Evaluation Score and all eligible entries will receive a score for the Popularity Competition part as described above to receive their cumulative Final Score and determine the prize winners.

What are the start and end dates?

Competition starts at September 17, 2020 at 00:00AM GMT and ends at November 8, 2020 at 11:59 PM GMT and will consist of the following periods:

Competition projects submission period: September 17, 2020 at 00:00AM GMT through November 1, 2020 at 11:59PM GMT.
Submitted entries Evaluation Period from Judge Committee: November 1 - November 8, 2020.
Popularity Competition runs from eligible project submission until November 8, 2020 at 11:59PM GMT.
Competition winners will be announced on November 9, 2020.

Note: Competition end dates are at the sole discretion of Robociti and may be subject to change.

Can I be disqualified from this competition?

If your participation violates ANY of the following, you may be disqualified.

Your entry must be your own original work.
Your entry cannot have been selected as a winner in any other Robociti competition.
You must have obtained any and all consents, approvals or licenses required for you to submit your entry.
Your entry may not include any third party trademarks (logos, names) or copyrighted materials (music, images, video, recognizable people, code, schematics etc...) unless you have obtained permission to use the materials.
Your entry must comply with your employer’s gift policies.

Hardware applications and/or project entries may NOT contain ANY of the following content:

Content that is sexually explicit.
Content that is unnecessarily violent or derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, religious, professional or age group.
Content that promotes illegal drugs, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing) or a particular political agenda.
Content that is obscene or offensive.
Content that defames, misrepresents or contains disparaging remarks about other people or companies.
Content that communicates messages or images inconsistent with the positive images and/or good will to which we wish to associate.
Content that violates any law.

We reserve the right to reject an entry, in our sole and absolute discretion, that we determine contains any of the above content.

Important note about Copyright: Your entire entry must only include material (including hardware, source code – both open source and third party sourced, user interface, music, video or images) that you own or that you have permission from the copyright/trademark owner to use. Your and/or your team’s entry may not include copyrighted materials (such as source code, user interface, background music, images or video) unless you own or have permission to use the materials. Ownership is not defined as purchasing a CD at a music store for replay, if playing a copyrighted recording on your guitar or repurposing an application’s user interface – your entry may be disqualified if copyrighted materials, including but not limited to these examples, are a part of your entry without appropriate licensing or permissions. If you do use permissible copyrighted materials, you must include the permissions information by citing the artist/creator and license information. Note that even material released under sites such as Creative Commons, common open source code licenses, and other similar licensing may need permission or acknowledgement as per the specific license.

Can I enter this competition as a team?

You can enter as a team of no more than five members.

The following requirements must be satisfied to participate in this competition as a team:

Your team must choose one individual (the “representative”) to speak for, act, and enter a project submission on behalf of your team.
Each individual team member must meet ALL of the eligibility and competition requirements outlined in the full rules.

How will my entry be potentially used?

Other than what is set forth below, we are not claiming any ownership rights to your entry. However, by submitting your entry, you agree to ALL of the following statements:

The following requirements must be satisfied to participate in this competition as a team:

You grant us an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to: (i) use, review, assess, test and otherwise analyze your entry and all its content in connection with this competition; and (ii) feature your entry and all content in connection with the marketing, sale, or promotion of this competition (including but not limited to internal and external sales meetings, conference presentations, tradeshows, and screen shots of this competition entry in press releases) in all media (now known or later developed).
You agree to sign any necessary documentation that may be required for us and our designees to make use of the rights you granted above.
You understand that after the submission deadline has passed, any project that has been submitted to the competition cannot be deleted or made private and will remain on the competition page after the competition has concluded.
You understand and acknowledge that the sponsor(s) may have developed or commissioned materials similar or identical to your submission and you waive any claims you may have resulting from any similarities to your entry.
You understand that you will not receive any compensation or credit for use of your entry, other than what is described in these full rules.

Please note that following the end of this competition your entry may be posted on a website selected by us for viewing by visitors to that website. We are not responsible for any unauthorized use of your entry by visitors to this website. While we reserve these rights, we are not obligated to use your entry for any purpose, even if it has been selected as a winning entry. If you do not want to grant us these rights to your entry, please do not enter this competition.

How are prizes awarded?

Limit one (1) prize per person or team. In the event of a tie between any eligible entries, an additional judge will break the tie based on the judging criteria described above. The decisions of the judges are final and binding. If we do not receive a sufficient number of entries meeting the entry requirements, we may, at our discretion, select fewer winners than the number of competition prizes described in the competition brief.

If you are a potential winner, we will notify you by sending a message to the e-mail address, the phone number, or mailing address (if any) provided at time of entry within seven (7) days following the announcement of the competition results. If the notification that we send is returned as undeliverable, or you are otherwise unreachable for any reason, we may award to a runner-up. If there is a dispute as to who is the potential winner, we will consider the potential winner to be the authorized account holder of the e-mail address used to enter the competition. If you are a potential winner, we may require you to sign an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability/Publicity Release and/or any other necessary legal and taxation documents necessary. You are advised to seek independent counsel regarding the tax implications of accepting a prize. If you are a potential winner and you are 18 or older, but are considered a minor in your place of legal residence, we may require your parent or legal guardian to sign all required forms on your behalf. If you do not complete the required forms as instructed and/or return the required forms within the time period listed on the winner notification message, we may disqualify you and select a runner-up.

If you are confirmed as a winner of this competition, the following rules apply:

You may not exchange your prize for cash or any other merchandise or services. However, if for any reason an advertised prize is unavailable, we reserve the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value.
You may not designate someone else as the winner. If you are unable or unwilling to accept your prize, we may award it to a runner up.
You will be solely responsible for all applicable federal, state, and local taxes related to accepting the prize, if you choose to accept the prize.
If a prize is awarded to a project submitted by a team, the designated representative will be the sole recipient of said prize, unless otherwise agreed upon in writing by the representative and his/her team.
If you win a prize that violates import regulations for your county, you must notify us by email within 10 days of receiving confirmation of your winning entry to 1) receive a virtual Visa gift card with the equivalent value of the prize OR 2) provide an alternative shipping address to send the prize.

Unless otherwise noted, all prizes are subject to their manufacturer’s warranty and/or terms and conditions.

What other conditions am I agreeing to by entering?

By entering this competition you are agreeing to the following statements:

What laws govern the way this competition is executed and administered?

This competition will be governed by the laws of the Hong Kong, and you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts of Hong Kong for any disputes arising out of this competition.

What if something unexpected happens and the competition cannot run as planned?

If someone cheats, or a virus, bug, bot, catastrophic event, or any other unforeseen or unexpected event that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled, (also referred to as force majeure) affects the fairness and/or integrity of this competition, we reserve the right to cancel, change or suspend this competition. This right is reserved whether the event is due to human or technical error. If a solution cannot be found to restore the integrity of the competition, we reserve the right to select winners from among all eligible entries received before we had to cancel, change or suspend the competition.

If you attempt, or we have strong reason to believe that you have compromised the integrity or the legitimate operation of this competition by cheating, hacking, creating a bot or other automated program, or by committing fraud in ANY way, we may seek damages from you to the fullest extent permitted by law. Further, we may disqualify you, and ban you from participating in any of our future competitions.

Who do I contact about this competition?

If you have any questions or comments regarding this competition, please email us at contact@robociti.com.

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