Robotbenchmark is a free web service allowing anybody to get his hands on 3D simulated robots.
A series of about 10 robotics challenges is proposed to the visitors with an increasing difficulty.
In each challenge, participants have to program a robot to perform a task in the most efficient way.
Tasks include various scenarios: wheeled robots performing wall following, mobile manipulators grasping objects in a factory, humanoid robots running for a race or autonomous cars driving on the highway.
Robots are programmed using the Python programming language in the built-in source code editor.
Efficiency is automatically measured and logged in the leader board to foster the competition among participants.
Visitors can check the performance of any participant from the leader board by playing back simulation recordings.

This web service became very successful especially since the pandemic period as many students had to work remotely and their professors were recommending to use it for exercises and projects. The server machines running the robot simulation in the back-end were highly stressed and we are considering extending them to support more users.

Although no registration is needed to play with the system, several thousands of people registered an account at Robotbenchmark to get their performance published on the leader boards.

The achievements of this project contributes to a better understanding of robotics and AI by a wide audience including students and general public. We believe it is essential to educate people with respect to robotics and AI as these technologies are becoming increasingly omnipresent in our everyday life. Understanding them is essential, so that the technology remains at the service of the human.

https://robotbenchmark.net

• International

• Youth
• The poor
• Remote and rural communities

It is easy to replicate the web service to scale it up and/or propose different challenges.
The system relies on very standard web and cloud technologies.
Moreover, everything is provided as open-source software, so that it is totally free to replicate.

Because the project needs only limited computer infrastructure resources, its sustainability is guaranteed by our company, as it constitute a great port-folio to demonstrate our know-how.
Various collaborations with educational or research organizations willing to collaborate on the development of similar projects (spin-off) are contributing to fund the project.

It promotes education in the field of robotics and AI at large, with no cultural, gender or money barrier.