Amazon Picking Challenge 2016

Our team NimbRo Picking achieved the second place in the stowing challenge, and the third place in the picking challenge.

Publications:

Max Schwarz, Anton Milan, Arul Selvam Periyasamy, and Sven Behnke:
RGB-D Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Manipulation in Clutter
accepted for International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), Sage Publications, to apprear 2017.

Max Schwarz, Anton Milan, Christian Lenz, Aura Munoz, Arul Selvam Periyasamy, Michael Schreiber, Sebastian Schüller, and Sven Behnke:
NimbRo Picking: Versatile Part Handling for Warehouse Automation
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, May 2017.
Finalist for Best Automation Paper Award.
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For our APC 2016 source code release, please see the GitHub repository [link].