ICRA’08 Robot Comics Contest

Organizers: Aude Billard, Jorge Cham

The ICRA'08 IEEE-RAS robot comics contest was an initiative sponsored by the Robotics and Automation Society (RAS).

The competition closed on Wednesday 21st 6pmThere were 13 entries

Matthieu Warnier,  Mathias Fontmarty,

Akin Sisbot, Aurélie Clodic

Xavier BroquèreLAAS – CNRS, France

Best new word: humanotics.

Marek Michalowski CMU, USA

Most likely to make money.

Leng-Feng Lee, New York State University, USA

Best appropriate treatment of inappropriate material.

Gianluca Antonelli, University of Cassino, Italy

The underfunded philosophers award.

Carol Reiley, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Best depiction of senior engineers and their underwear.

Michael Murphy,CMU, USA

Tie: most likely to happen.

OgnjenPetrovic, Santa Clara University, USA

Tie: most likely to happen.

Cheng Long,Key Laboratory of Complex Systems

Most art intellectual.

Rodolf Heliot, Christine Azevedo, Pierre Wieber, INRIA, FranceBest depiction of graduate life and use of Pengii.

Daniel Montrallo Flickinger, Alan BowlingUniversity of Notre Dame, USA

Most deserving of its own theme music.

Cristian Plagemann, University of Fribourg, Germany

Most inclusion of real robots

Kirk Valladeres, Naeem Assif Mirza, JoshuaWainer, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Best semi-pro entry

Pierre DupontBoston University, USA

Best rendering of a past or present AdCom Member

ICRA’08 Robot Comics Contest

The jury was composed of six experts in robotics and comics design.

The Award to the Best Comics includes:

$500.-. + 1 year-long IEEE-RAS membership.

The best comics will also be published in the IEEE-RAS magazine, with a photograph of the winning team.

ICRA’08 Robot Comics Contest

And the winner is …

3rd Runner Up

Cristian Plagemann

University of Fribourg, Germany

2nd Runner Up

Kirk Valladeres, Naeem Assif Mirza,

JoshuaWainer

University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Matthieu Warnier,  Mathias Fontmarty,

Akin Sisbot, Aurélie Clodic

Xavier Broquère

LAAS-CNRSToulouse, France

WINNER OF THE ICRA’08 Robot Comics Contest