December 26, 2019 World MoveIt Day 2019 Recap

World MoveIt Day 2019 Recap

by Tahnee Foley

We are thrilled to report that World MoveIt Day was a great success this year, setting new records - again - for the annual event. We would like to thank everyone who participated, sponsored, and supported.

We’re excited to see new locations and interest in MoveIt

MoveIt continues to grow and improve and we appreciate everyone’s contributions.

Now for the numbers:

  • Number of locations: 10
  • Number of participants: 141 (18% larger than 2018)

Official locations and participants:

  • 11 @ Universität Hamburg / Group TAMS, Hamburg, Germany
  • 33 @ Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
  • 10 @ Panjab University, Haryana, India
  • 2 @ Cluster Innovation Centre, New Dehli, India
  • 25 @ OMRON SINIC X, Tokyo, Japan
  • 9 @ PickNik Robotics, Boulder, CO
  • 22 @ Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
  • 15 @ Fetch Robotics, San Jose, California
  • 4 @ Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
  • 10 @ Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC), Singapore

A few other stats from the event and 30 days after, in the consolidated moveit repo. There are many other MoveIt related repos that we did not measure for this report:

  • 94 pull requests merged
  • 117 pull requests opened
  • 32 issues closed
  • 37 issues opened

Some pictures from some of the locations:

PickNik

Fetch

OMRON SINIC X

Refer to yearly Word MoveIt Day stats.