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A continuation of the hackathon is already being considered for 2019. "Then we will increase the level of difficulty of the exercise and create even more realistic operating conditions," says competition director Dr. Frank Schneider. For example, the teams will no longer be able to fall back on a predefined communication infrastructure. In this way, we are gradually approaching an increasingly realistic operational scenario." Pictured: the robot 'R17' of the Hungarian team 'Rescube'.