AI Driving Olympics Ready for Submissions
Submissions to the AI Driving Olympics are officially open for the Lane Following task evaluated in simulation. To make a
October 14, 2018
Duckietown: Learn robotics and AI and help the Duckies get around!
News
- Duckietown grows up. So much news to share!
- We are running the AI Driving Olympics (AI-DO) and we are ready for submissions. Read more in the announcement.
- We just ran a successful Kickstarter to make it easy for everybody to get a Duckiebot. If you missed out but want to get a Duckiebot starter kit or teach a Duckietown class please contact us.
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The Duckietown project
Duckietown started as a class at MIT in 2016. You can watch the “duckumentary” created about the first class.
Duckietown is now a worldwide initiative to realize a new vision for AI/robotics education.
Since 2018 the project is coordinated by the non-profit Duckietown Foundation.
Read more: The Duckietown Foundation; our mission; our story; how you can help.
The Duckietown platform
The platform has two parts: Duckiebots and Duckietowns.
Duckiebots are low-cost mobile robots that are built almost entirely from off-the-shelf parts. The only onboard sensor is the forward-facing camera.
Duckietowns are the roads, which are constructed from exercise mats and tape, and the signage which the robots use to navigate around.
Duckietown for education
The Duckietown platform designed as part of an a university AI/robotics curriculum.
It has been used in prestigious universities, such as MIT, ETH Zürich, and Université de Montréal.
We are developing a “class-in-a-box” that comprises lectures, exercises, and theory, that combine with the physical robot platform to reinforce the core concepts.
If you are an instructor interested in using Duckietown, read here to get started.
Duckietown for research
The Duckietown platform has also been used extensively for research on mobile robotics and physically embodied AI systems.
We are very excited to announce the AI Driving Olympics, which will be a live competition at NIPS 2018.
If you are a researcher, read more about getting started about using the platform for research. See also: papers using Duckietown, the researchers using Duckietown.
Duckietown for “Makademics”
Makademics (makers + academics) are people who want to learn and build on their own and also want a very deep understanding of how things are working.
We want to allow everybody to learn AI/robotics even if they are not at elite institutions like MIT and ETH Zürich.
With Duckietown you can easily build your own robot, and follow along our lectures and interact with a global community of learners.
Get started!
Recent news
October 14, 2018
Kicking off the Duckietown Donation program with Cali, Colombia
Our first donation of a class kit goes to Cali, Colombia. We’ve reached our Kickstarter goal! This is great news because it means that
August 22, 2018
Duckietown in Ghana – Teaching robotics to brilliant students
In July 2018, Vincent Mai taught a 2-week Duckietown class to some of the brightest high school students in Ghana.
August 13, 2018
How Duckietown inspired a 14 year old girl to become a tech entrepreneur
Valeria and Andrea before getting back to work on Duckiebots (2016, MIT) We host a guest post by Valeria Cagnina,
August 6, 2018
The Duckiebots are ready to conquer the world!
Dear friends of Duckietown:We are excited to bring you tremendous news about the Duckietown project.In the past years we have
August 1, 2018
Communities sites launched
Today, we have launched the new communities subsites: more than 400, in fact. Each comes with a blog and a forum. We hope that this will encourage Duckietown enthusiasts to organize locally.
July 22, 2018