The Earth Rover Challenge: FrodoBots, YGG, and DeepMind Researchers Lead “AI vs Gamers” Robotics Competition – Decrypt
Singapore, Singapore, September 16th, 2024, GamingWire
The First-of-Its-Kind Competition Pits Top Human Gamers against Autonomous AI Models at IROS 2024
FrodoBots, a pioneer in robotics gaming, is thrilled to announce a groundbreaking collaboration with Yield Guild Games (YGG), a web3 guild protocol, and introduce the inaugural AI vs. Gamers: Earth Rover Challenge.
This partnership marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Embodied AI research and ushers in a new paradigm for crowdsourcing real-world data by merging robotics and gaming.
The competition, co-organized with researchers from Google Deepmind and other research institutes, will take place during the prestigious IROS 2024, the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, from October 16-17 in Abu Dhabi.
An “AI vs Humans” Competition
The Earth Rover Challenge is a first-of-its-kind competition where 5 AI teams and 5 human gamers will remotely control small-sized sidewalk robots while completing real-world navigation missions across multiple cities including Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Taipei, Stockholm, and more.
Participating AI teams include research labs from UC Berkeley, UT Austin, Carnegie Mellon University, National University of Singapore, Seoul National University, etc. Human gamers will be selected from the top leaderboard of thousands of YGG gamers previously playing FrodoBots’ first gaming title: Earth Rover.
Gaming And The New Gig Economy
FrodoBots’ collaboration with YGG advances the gaming-enabled gig economy initiated by the play-and-earn movement. Through this competition, the partners hope to showcase the potential of robotic gaming as a tool for large-scale teleoperation data collection.
Advancing AI Robotics Research
As part of the competition, FrodoBots has open-sourced a 2,000-hour driving dataset, the largest of its kind in the public domain. In addition, participating AI teams will have access to FrodoBots’ global fleet of robots deployed in over a dozen cities across all six continents, allowing for AI model evaluation on an unprecedented scale under “in the wild” settings.
FrodoBots plans to continue co-hosting such competitions with researchers while expanding the scope to include other robotic tasks with new robotic gaming titles in its push to make meaningful contributions to Embodied AI research.
For more information about the competition, users can visit the Earth Rover Challenge official website.
About FrodoBots
FrodoBots is transforming the landscape of gaming and Embodied AI research by crowdsourcing real-world datasets through its unique robotics gaming titles. With games like “Earth Rovers” where players earn points by exploring the world via teleoperated sidewalk robots, and “Octo Arms” which challenges gamers to solve 3D puzzles with robotic arms, FrodoBots is merging entertainment with robotics.
About YGG
Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a web3 guild protocol that enables players and gaming guilds to find their community, discover games and level up together. As a network of gaming guilds focused on web3 games, YGG provides an equal-opportunity support system so that its members can become power players in games and in life.
YGG empowers its guild community to organize onchain, providing guilds access to its infrastructure for them to scale and receive opportunities based on their specializations. Through YGG’s questing initiatives, such as Superquests and the Guild Advancement Program (GAP), members of YGG can benefit from its achievement-based reputation system and build their onchain identity.
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