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... of robots was on show in the 'Amazon Picking Challenge', which took place for the first time during a RoboCup. 16 university teams from all over the world competed with their own designs. Their robots' sensors had to recognize objects of different sizes and sometimes transparent and shiny surface structures. In the 'Stow' competition category, the robots had to load a shelf with certain products from a box under time pressure. In the ...