Flipkart GRiD 6.0 - Robotics Challenge

GRiD is Flipkart’s Flagship Engineering Campus Challenge which provides you with the opportunity to apply your technical knowledge and skills, to compete and complete key challenges.

Now in its sixth edition, Flipkart GRiD has become bigger & better, bringing real-world problem statements from the world of E-Commerce to the brightest engineering minds across the globe!

So are you ready to enter the GRiD?

Eligibility & Team Rules:

• This competition is open to students pursuing B.Tech/ B.E./ M.Tech programs across all engineering colleges in India (Batch 2025, 2026, 2027 & 2028)
• Students must register in teams of 1 to 5 members
• Cross-Specialization teams are eligible
• Teams can form across different academic years
• Cross-campus teams are allowed
• The batch of 2024 is not eligible to participate in this competition
• The participating students can be from any specialization
• One person cannot be a member of more than one team
• Any deviation from the above will result in immediate disqualification of the entire team

Note: The Robotics Challenge is open for all students and teams including those who have already registered for either Software Development or Information Security Challenge.

Stages:

The Robotics Track will have 2 elimination rounds to test you on your technical, analytical, and ideation skills before the Grand Finale where the finalists will get to present their solutions to the panel of domain experts at Flipkart.

The participants are expected to build their own robot (both hardware and software).

Level 1 - MCQ Test:

• Every participant will get a set of questions to be answered within 30 minutes.
• It is mandatory for all team members to attempt the quiz round.
• A team will be scored based on the average marks of all team members attempting the quiz round.
• Every participant will be ranked on Accuracy + Speed (Time Taken) + Start Time i.e., if two teams have the same score, then the team that started and finished earlier will be ranked higher
• The quiz will be based on E-Commerce trivia (Reference: https://stories.flipkart.com) and Tech (Technology Awareness + Techstack & Computer Science Fundamentals).
• It is not an eliminatory round.

Level 2 - Elimination Round:

• Shortlisted teams are required to submit detailed use case scenarios, including a proposal outlining their approach and the code developed so far.
• The GRID team will provide images for testing the model during the FAQ session.
• As this is an elimination stage, participants should submit a video simulation of their solution using the provided images, clearly explaining their work.
• Teams working on detecting the freshness of produce may use any fresh item and submit the freshness index based on their model.

Level 3 - The National Finale:

• Shortlisted teams will be invited to present a live demo in front of a jury. The demo should showcase the use case solution in a real-world scenario.
• The jury may request live actions to test the robustness and functionality of the solutions. Teams should be ready to answer questions and demonstrate the impact and practicality of their solutions.

What's at stake? - Rewards and Prizes:

Attractive prizes to be won along with the opportunity to be a part of the hiring process for Tech Internships & Full-Time Roles (Internship Stipend: INR 1,00,000 per month; SDE-1 Role Compensation: INR 32 LPA)

• Winners get EGVs worth INR 1,00,000*
• First Runners-Up get EGVs worth INR 75,000*

Certificate of merit will be provided to the following:

• Top 20 teams per college
• Level 1 qualifying teams
• Finalists

Career Opportunities:

• Top teams who qualify for level 2 will get a chance to be a part of the hiring process for Internship and full-time tech roles at Flipkart
• Teams who reach the finale will get a PPI for a software tech role (Internship/full-time)