Second SciRoc Challenge - "Smart City" 2021

Bologna, Italy -The second Smart City Competition in the context of the EU-funded SciRoc project was held in Bologna Italy from September 07-10. Teams from nine different universities participated in this event to get their robots benchmarked in a total of five episodes. Deebul Nair and Sven Schneider from Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg organized Episode 05: "Shopping Pick and Pack".
This episode also featured a remote event in which four teams participated from their robotics labs in UK, Germany and Italy. The on-site event was won by Team AutonOHM from Technische Hochschule Nürnberg, whereas Team Cranfield from University of Cranfield was victorious in the online event. Team b-it-bots also participated in the remote competition and secured the third position.

The event was an overall success, majorly to reboot the robotics competition community post the pandemic with a combination of on-site and online events. Team b-it-bots from Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg revitalised itself with new team members joining the team and participating in their first international robotics event. The new team members are Mihir Mehta, Michael Stolarz, Ludovico Scarton, Malika Navaratna, Syed Ibrahim Shakir and Kishan Ravindra Sawant.