Results
Attained a global 4th position in the RoboCup 2023 ARM Challenge, securing the 1st position in India.

About the team
The interdisciplinary student team, SillyARM, comprised of the following students in carrying out the research and development activities the Centre for AI, IoT and Robotics to participate in RoboCup ARM 2023 Challenge under the supervision of Prof. M. Sreekumar.
Team CAIRobotics: Chayan Maiti, Deep Patel, Radhika Mittal, Yash Kumar Sahu.

About RoboCup and ARM Challenge
The RoboCup 2023, the biggest robotic and AI competition in the world, took place from July 4 to 10 at the Parc des Expositions in Bordeaux, France. The event brought together thousands of visitors and researchers in robotics and artificial intelligence around a common ambition: to share knowledge, highlight the latest innovations and advance technical and scientific progress. The event covered all the major scientific and technological challenges including the Autonomous Robot Manipulation (ARM) Challenge.

The RoboCup ARM Challenge aims at involving young researchers and students to address challenging problems related to autonomous robot manipulation, within an educational scientific competition. Participants are tasked with completing a recycling task with a robot manipulator in a dynamic simulation environment. Teams had to implement perception and control algorithms in MATLAB and Simulink to grasp and manipulate bottles, cans, and detergent pouches within a table to classify them into two bins. Points are awarded based on the performance of the algorithm in new environments. The top 6 shortlisted teams were invited to participate in the RoboCup 2023 Finals (France) using an in-person setup with a Franka Emika robot.